There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's just a ...

Google Chrome is rolling out a feature that allows users to copy text from scanned PDFs. This has been a long time coming. One of the most frustrating things about opening a PDF in Chrome is that ...

I've encountered few PDF files that look fine but when you try to copy out of them, you get gibberish (just a bunch of weird characters sprinkled with #@!$). I've tried both the Preview and Acrobat so ...

Widely used PDF files capture text and images nearly exactly as they display in the application that created them. The format is designed to store text and both bitmapped and vector images, with the ...