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ABBYY PDF Transformer+
User’s Guide
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If the copied text or table differs significantly from the original, add a text layer to the
document page from which you copied it, then copy the text or table again.
Complete the following steps to copy an image of a part of a document.
1. Select the document area you wish to copy.
2. Right–click the selected area and either select Copy Image from the shortcut menu or click the
appropriate icon in the pop–up menu above the selected area.
If the selected area contains text, an image of the text will be copied.
3. Paste the image.
Recognizing text
ABBYY PDF Transformer+ lets you add a text layer to image –only PDF documents. A document
created this way is practically indistinguishable from the original, but the text it contains can be
marked up, copied, and searched. You can also replace the text layer in searchable PDF documents.
1. Specify the languages of your PDF document See Recognition languages for details.
2. On the toolbar, click the Convert To button and then select Searchable PDF Document from the
drop–down list.
3. The output document will contain a searchable text layer as a result.
You can also add a text layer when scanning a paper document, opening a PDF file, or adding
pages to an existing PDF document. To do this, select the Recognize text option in the Scan
Pages and Create PDF Document dialog box or the PDF Creation Settings dialog box and
specify the languages of the document.
If ABBYY PDF Transformer+ fails to recognize the PDF document, try saving it as an image –only
PDF document by clicking Convert To on the toolbar and selecting Image–Only PDF
Document from the drop–down list.
Background recognition
ABBYY PDF Transformer+ lets you search and copy text and pictures from PDF documents without a
text layer, such as scanned documents and documents created from image files. This is possible
thanks to a recognition process that runs in the background.