Google Chrome is rolling out a feature that allows users to copy text from scanned PDFs. This has been a long time coming. One of the most frustrating things about opening a PDF in Chrome is that ...

There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's just a ...

Copy and Paste from Adobe Reader to Other Programs PDF documents can be saved from Reader only as a copy of the PDF file or as an unformatted text file. Reader, however, enables you to copy and paste ...

OneNote has a version of the Microsoft Store app. Office’s OneNote. While it makes OneNote of much better use to those who use it as their primary note-taking app, an issue reported by many is that ...

This PowerToys feature supercharged my Windows clipboard.

The Kindle Scribe is a new hybrid e-reader and e-note. You can view and edit PDF files, freehand draw and also conduct handwriting notes in Kindle books. PDF files are a different beast on the Scribe.

I've encountered few PDF files that look fine but when you try to copy out of them, you get gibberish (just a bunch of weird characters sprinkled with #@!$). I've tried both the Preview and Acrobat so ...

There are several applications that enable you to replace text in PDF files. Adobe PDF files can be created and read on various computer media, such as mobile devices, PCs and Macs, as well as ...

Widely used PDF files capture text and images nearly exactly as they display in the application that created them. The format is designed to store text and both bitmapped and vector images, with the ...

You may search any text file for words or phrases, except a scanned document not run through optical character reader (OCR) software. To initiate a search of a document select "Edit/Search" from the ...