For example, when you have a complex background, it’s hard to decide on a text color that matches and is readable, adding a highlight is a solution! Given that I am using a paid license for Adobe Acrobat, this is a problem that should be addressed.The idea of highlighting text is to give a focus point, but it’s useful in other ways as well. But in short, the way to get around the problem is to not use the 'Adobe PDF' option. I am not sure if this 'Save As PDF' option uses a Kami PDF extension that I have installed on my browser (MS Edge). But if I select 'Save As PDF', I am able to highlight the text in the saved document. If I select print to 'Adobe PDF', I am faced with the problem described. When I right click and select Print, I see the options of ' Adobe PDF' and ' Save As PDF'.

I've even tried running the OCR to recognize text, but it doesn't work. It just highlights an circular area, not at all related to the text.

Lately, when I've been printing to Adobe PDF, I've been unable to highlight text in the resulting document. I've always been able to look up a federal solicitation document (as part of my job) online and print to PDF, then highlight the important parts. Pleas let us know if you would like us to examine your PDF document to identify the particular reason why you cannot highlight text. The easiest way to work around the problem is to use the desktop version of Adobe Reader. Therefore, users are not able to make any changes to encrypted PDF documents. Unlike the desktop version of Adobe Reader, the mobile Adobe Acrobat Reader apps (for iOS, Android, Windows Phone) have the known limitation where changes cannot be saved to encrypted PDF documents. password, certificate) or restrictions are added to a PDF document, the document becomes encrypted. All of the commenting tools will be disabled in this case. The author/distributor of the PDF document does not want you to add comments to it. The security settings or restrictions of the PDF document explicitly disallow commenting. You need to run OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to turn images of text into real text. You can only add Text Markup annotations (Highlight, Underline, Strikeout) to real text, not to image of text. If you cannot select text at all (no matter how hard you try), your PDF document is likely a scanned PDF. Try selecting text instead of highlighting text. (a) Scanned PDF document containing no real text Your problem may be caused by the type of your PDF document. The other users in this forum thread had questions about how to find the commenting tools in the new mobile Reader app - Adobe Acrobat Reader for iOS or Android. It sounds like you have a different problem. But it is not clear which app you actually use.) Are you using the desktop app on a Windows/Mac computer or the mobile app on an iPad/iPhone or Android tablet/phone? (Your forum post appeared in the mobile forum.

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