Cannot highlight text in a PDF. - Adobe Support Community
Jun 9, 2025 · If you cannot select text at all (no matter how hard you try), your PDF document is likely a scanned PDF. You can only add Text Markup annotations (Highlight, Underline, Strikeout) to real …
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Aug 25, 2024 · Several of our users are unable to highlight .pdf documents using Adobe Acrobat DC in various colors. They've given up and are now highlighting their documents by hand! Please help. …
Solved: Highlighting Text Not Working Correctly - Adobe Product ...
May 1, 2025 · Solved: I just upgraded to Acrobat Pro. When I try to highlight text, it only draws a box around the text in the selected color rather than highlighting the - 15300305
Can't select or copy text - Adobe Support Community
Mar 20, 2019 · Suddenly I am not able to select and copy any text from any PDF document, whether from a PDF I have created that contains renderable text, or from a scan that I have used text …
Re: How to continuously highlight or underline text in a pdf on Adobe ...
Dec 2, 2024 · I am trying to highlight and underline text on a pdf opened in Acrobat, but the highlight tool only works on each individual word, so when I try to highlight an entire sentence or paragraph, each …
Cannot highlight text in a PDF. - Adobe Support Community
You can only add Text Markup annotations (Highlight, Underline, Strikeout) to real text, not to image of text. You need to run OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to turn images of text into real …
Solved: Highlighter Doesn't Work - Adobe Product Community
Mar 13, 2019 · Solved: My highlighter tool in Acrobat Pro DC stopped working! Can anyone help me? I press the highlighter icon on top of my screen, highlight my text, and - 10388685
Re: Unable to highlight text in a PDF.
You can only add Text Markup annotations (Highlight, Underline, Strikeout) to real text, not to image of text. You need to run OCR (Optical Character Recognition) software to turn images of text into real …
Highlight tool is not working in Acrobat Pro DC
Jan 18, 2018 · I recently installed the recent Adobe Pro DC updates. A simple yellow highlighting feature used over the years is now seemingly impossible. When clicking the highlighter, the text areas show …
Solved: Highlight bar gives me a HUGE elliptical area when... - Adobe ...
Jul 2, 2020 · Ok, I have Adobe Acrobat Pro DC. I'm trying to highlight a short sentence or even just a word in a PDF. When I take the cursor over what I want to highlight, I get this oval shape, covering …