User manual

ABBYY PDF Transformer+
User’s Guide
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 Add Bates numbers to your PDFs
Add a unique number to each page to each document to make finding archived documents easier.
 Add a text layer to image–only PDFs
Scan paper documents and add a text layer to them to make them searchable. You will also be able
to copy and mark up text in such documents.
Converting PDF documents
ABBYY PDF Transformer+ lets you easily convert PDF documents into editable formats.
With ABBYY PDF Transformer+, you can:
 Convert PDF documents into editable formats
Convert PDF files to Microsoft Office documents, Open Office documents, PowerPoint presentations,
plain text files, CSV files with tabular data, FB2 e–book files, and EPUB e–book files.
 Select conversion settings
ABBYY PDF Transformer+ offers a wide range of conversion settings to achieve optimal results.
Reducing the size of PDF files
With ABBYY PDF Transformer+, you can:
 Reduce the size of a PDF file
PDF files that contain page images or illustrations can be very large. You can compress a document
before you save it, decreasing its file size.
 Compress pictures in a PDF file
Use Mixed Raster Content (MRC) compression to get smaller files without a loss in quality. This type
of compression is available when you scan documents or create PDF documents from image files.
Removing information from PDF documents
Before making a PDF document public, you may wish to remove unnecessary or sensitive
information. With ABBYY PDF Transformer+, you can:
 Find and remove confidential information
Search both in the body text and in the hidden data such as comments, bookmarks, and metadata.
For your convenience, search results are displayed in a separate search pane, with the matching
words highlighted in the body text of the document, so that you can easily remove all occurrences of
a particular word or phrase.
 Remove pictures and text
ABBYY PDF Transformer+ has a special editing mode that lets you delete text and images from PDF
documents that do not contain page images. Use the Eraser tool to remove text or pictures from
any type of PDF file.
Protecting PDF documents
There are many ways to protect your PDF documents. With ABBYY PDF Transformer+, you can:
 Protect PDFs with passwords
Protect your PDF document with a password to prevent unauthorized opening, printing, or editing.
 Sign digital documents and validate signatures
Add digital signatures to documents and validate existing signatures. Digital signatures cannot be
forged and the recipient of your document can be absolutely certain of your authorship.