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ABBYY® PDF Transformer 3.0 User’s Guide
● Enable Bates stamping
Select this option if you would like an index to be built for your document.
PDF/A
● Enable Bates stamping
Select this option if you would like an index to be built for your document.
Extracting Text and Pictures from PDF Documents
With ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 you can:
● select areas on pages of a PDF document and save them as images via a shortcut menu;
● extract text fragments from a PDF document.
To extract a picture from a PDF document:
1. On your PDF document, select an area of type Picture.
2. Right–click on the area and select Copy Picture from the shortcut menu.
3. Paste the copied picture into the application of your choice.
To extract a text fragment:
1. Right–click on the desired area of type Text and select Copy Text from the shortcut menu.
2. Paste the copied text into an application of your choice.
You can create a new area manually or run automated page analysis.
To run automated analysis, do one of the following:
● select the tool on the toolbar
● press Ctrl+F
● in the Pages window, select Show Areas from the shortcut menu
PDF and PDF/A Conversion Features
When converting to PDF and PDF/A formats, you can edit out confidential information, index your document for further searches, and
add stamps to your document.
● Redaction tool
● Adding stamps
● Bates stamping
Redaction Tool
With ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0, you can easily edit out confidential information before publishing your PDF document. You can
permanently wipe out both text and pictures from your document.
Data can only be edited out when converting to searchable PDF. If you edit out unwanted text or images in this mode and then
switch to any other conversion mode, the data will not be obscured with a black rectangle.
To edit out unwanted information from a PDF document
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