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ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide

Marking up text

The PDF Editor allows you to indicate what changes should be made to a document. Any editing marks

that you add will not alter the text itself but merely indicate what changes must be made and where.

Annotations related to editing text are only available in documents with a text layer or documents

that have been recognized by the background recognition process.

ABBYY FineReader includes the following markup tools:

Highlight

Underline

Strikethrough

Add Note to Insert Text

You can add a comment to any type of annotation by double-clicking the annotation. For more on

comments, see Collaborating on PDF documents .

To highlight, underline, or cross out a text fragment:

Select a markup tool on the main toolbar and then select the desired text fragment, or

Select the desired text fragment and then select a markup tool on the main toolbar.

To indicate an insertion point:

Click the tool on the PDF Tools toolbar and click the place where you think text needs to be

inserted.

To change the color of an annotation:

Right-click the annotation and select the desired color on the shortcut menu or

Click a markup tool on the main toolbar and then click one of the color boxes on the toolbar

that appears above the document.

You can use the search feature to mark up specific text fragments without reading through the entire

document to find them.