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Exporting images from a PDF

Join Brian Wood for an in-depth discussion in this video Exporting images from a PDF, part of Acrobat 9 Pro Essential Training.

A PDF file can be re-purposed to use contents in another application.…We will see how to get the pictures out of a PDF using the Export command as well…as the Snapshot tool in a few other ways.…Let grun_brochure.pdf open.…There are times when you have a PDF file and you need to just reuse those pictures in there.…Now, there are good ways to do this, there are bad ways to do this.…So we are going to through the good ways and just talk about the bad ways.…Several ways to get your pictures out; if you come under File, you will see Save As.…

Choose Save As, take a look at Save as type here and you have the ability to Save As image files.…When I saw this and I was like OK, well that's great, what it is going to do.…Choose JPEG, you have got several different file formats, you all might not see the same exact things I see depending…on your platform and version and if I choose JPEG; click Settings probably here on the right and you will be able…to tell it how to actually convert the file.…So it's going to say Grayscale images are going to be Medium Quality,…

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Brian Wood

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Q: After scanning a file to PDF, the text is not editable, despite following the steps in the “Editing text” movie. How do I make a PDF with editable text?

A: Text may not be editable after scanning to PDF since most scanners scan a document and convert the contents to a digital image. To check if text is editable, open the PDF and select the Text and Image tool. Position the pointer over the "text" in the PDF, and if a I-beam cursor appears, it's text. If not, it's most likely an image. In that case, the image needs to be converted to text first by choosing Document > OCR Text Recognition > Recognize Text Using OCR, then choosing ClearScan as the method.