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Extracting text from PDF files
The Copy Text command finds text in PDF files and places it onto the
Clipboard as plain text, running OCR if necessary. The command View
Text does the same, but displays the text in a PaperPort window. You can
choose to have these texts stored or not; if not it is regenerated each time
the command is used. Send PDF files to word processor programs on the
Send To bar. This delivers editable text with a defined level of formatting,
using OCR if necessary.
See the Help topics: To convert scanned documents to text and Output
options
for the target program.
Adding document information to PDF files for searching
You can define an item name, author, subject and keywords to a PDF file
and also assign page names to each page to help in searching. See the Help
topic:
Assigning properties to PaperPort Image and PDF files and Item
properties
.
The All-in-One search finds words in this document information for one or
more PDF files. You can search through document information only,
through text content only, or both, with different search strings for each
search type. Indexing via the Index Manager makes full text searches
much faster.
Saving PDF files to other file types
You can save PDF files to a range of image file types and to XPS files. See
Help:
Saving to other formats . A multi-page PDF results in a single file
when a multi-page file type is selected, otherwise each PDF page becomes
a separate file.
Adding PDF files to Windows Desktop Search
Go to Desktop > Options > Advanced to enable or disable PaperPort as
the agent for handling PDF files in Windows Desktop Search.
See the Help topics About PDF files and PDF file support.