Copy selected text, Convert tables to spreadsheets, Copy images – Adobe Acrobat 9 PRO Extended User Manual
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USING ACROBAT 9 PRO EXTENDED
Saving and exporting PDFs
Last updated 9/30/2011
Select all the text on a page
1 Choose View > Page Display > Single Page.
2 Do one of the following:
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Choose Edit >
Select All.
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Click four times in the text. This method selects all the text on the page regardless of the page layout.
Note: If you choose any other page layout, all the text in the document is selected.
Copy selected text
1 Use the Select tool
to select any amount of text on the page.
2 Copy the text:
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Choose Edit > Copy to copy the selected text to another application.
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Right-click on the selected text, and then select Copy.
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Right-click on the selected text, and then choose Copy With Formatting. This command, which preserves the
column layout, appears only if the document is tagged properly.
You can paste copied text into comments and bookmarks as well as into documents authored in other applications.
Convert tables to spreadsheets
You convert tables to Excel by copying and pasting the content to a file.
1 For scanned documents, choose Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR. This command
converts the scanned images to text. The quality of your original scan affects how well you can copy and paste the
text.
2 Click the Select tool
.
3 Press Alt as you drag a rectangle over the rows and columns to copy.
To select tables that exceed one page, try changing the page display to Single Page Continuous before selecting the
tables. (View > Page Display > Single Page Continuous)
4 Right-click the selection, and choose one of the following options:
Copy As Table
Preserves formatting when you copy the table to Excel. In Excel, use the Paste Special command and
select XML Spreadsheet.
Save As Table
Lets you paste the table to a new file.
Open Table In Spreadsheet
Opens the table in a CSV-compliant application, such as Excel.
To copy a table in RTF, drag the selected table into an open document in the target application.
Copy images
Use the Select tool to copy and paste individual images from a PDF to the clipboard (Windows only), to another
application, or to a file.