Can I Copy Highlighted Text?

[Ulrik]

Hi,

PDF-XChange Viewer is new to me, and I downloaded it in the hope that it allowed me to highlight text in a pdf (it obviously does this part), and then allowed me to copy all the highlighted text (and only that text), and paste it in another document.

Ideally, in the highlighted text, insertions for page numbers would be automatically made by the program (not after every word, just where a new page begins). Anyway, this is the type of functionality that I was looking for. The reason is obviously that it allows me to extract the key points in an article for later reading, without actually reading the whole article again. It would save massive amounts of time!

So, my question is, can PDF-XChange Viewer do this (or something simillar)?

Regards,

Ulrik.

[TMiB03]

In the past, I have been able to copy and paste text from one pdf document to Word, the formatting doesnt come across and it treats each line as though it ends with a hard return, but it saves on the retyping. It doesnt recognize headers/footers wither.

[Ulrik]

Hi Chris,

Did you do this using Tracker, and if so, how?

Thanks,

Ulrik

[TMiB03]

At the top, there is a button to the right of a hand and camera that has a letter t, select that button and then if your document contains text (not a raster image) you should be able to highlight text, then just hit CTRL+C

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hello Chris and Ulrik.

What Chris has pointed is the Text select tool, which is useful, and yes can copy that particular text (provided the document has text in it), but I believe Ulrik wants to export more than one highlighted text are, and do it in an automated way.

For this you need to change some settings before you start Highlighting in Edit -> Preferences -> Commenting
There turn on (if it is not already) "Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out and Underline comment pop-ups.

With this setting when you use any of these three tools, the text that you applied it on, will be copied in the annotation (all those are annotations in the PDF specification) pop-up note.

Then you can use Comments -> Summarize Comments , and if you have other annotations in the document make sure to summarize by type - so that all highlights are grouped together, and this will make a new PDF file with all your highlighted text summarized.

Best,
Stefan

[Ulrik]

Hi Stefan,

This a bit more like what I had imagined, but those headings with author etc., I wish they weren't there! If they weren't there, and if the highlight was thrown into a txt file, then I would be very pleased!

I wonder if this is something that can be thought about for a later version?

Kind regards, and thanks for the help,

Ulrik.

[Stefan - PDF-XChange]

Hi Ulrik,

You have the option to export to a .rtf or a text file document, but I am afraid that as of now you can not get rid of all the "unwanted" information automatically at this time - but if you export to .rtf there are tools that will let you quickly remove some repeating information.

Best,
Stefan