Why is text not highlightable? strip all blocking tags?

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mattad
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Why is text not highlightable? strip all blocking tags?

Post by mattad »

I have attached a sample *.pdf document (from a german news magazine).

When I load this pdf into PDFXChange Viewer Pro or Editor I can NOT hightlight a text.
And I cannot mark text for copying.

Why?

Assume I load the pdf into PDF-Xchange Editor:
How can strip off all internal tags/format instructions which prevent a highlighting/copying?

Alternatively: Is there a way to re-format the text toallow copying/highlighting?

Thank you
Matt
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Re: Why is text not highlightable? strip all blocking tags?

Post by Will - Tracker Supp »

Hi Matt,

Thanks for the post and sample - this document does not contain any text and is simply an image of text. Please use the Document --> OCR Pages feature.

Also, please note that this has been covered numerous times on the forums, so please do try searching for possible resolutions before posting, in the future.

Thanks,
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Thank you.

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Will Travaglini
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