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2008-07-29 17:16:15
pelayeitzu
Registered: Jul 29 2008
Posts: 7

Hi I'm using adobe acrobat 8 professional on a windows vista OS.
what I'm trying to do is to export all the highlighting text of my pdf document to a word document or to a new created pdf. I thought this could be possible working with the "comments" button and the "summarize comments" feature but the resulting lay-out is a pdf (most of it blank pages) with the list of comments. I tried all the other options but I can't get it the way I want : JUST THE HIGHLIGHTING TEXT ready for editing.

I will really appreciate your help because I need this to save some time copying and pasting from many documents.

thanks for your time.

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 8.0, Windows
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2008-07-29 20:43:46
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daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
derlco,
This post may help.
[url]http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=15426[/url]

Be well...

Be well...

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2008-07-30 15:36:58
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pelayeitzu
Registered: Jul 29 2008
Posts: 7
dAKA630,

Thank you very much for your help.
I tried this method but it wasn't able to give me the highlighted text. It is just a long spreadsheet file with the word "highlighting" repeating itself. Maybe it is useful if you are used to work with "Comments" (otherwise its a completely useless option), so you want those comments all together and those comments doesn't necessary need to have highlighted parts, which is a different issue.
I hope there is any way to create a "export or copy highlighting text" option.

once again thank you.
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2008-07-30 21:01:20
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daka630
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Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
derlco,
My apology. My intent was to refer you to the "Export Highlighted Text" post for which I'd put in a link (where I'd mentioned "selected" text. In hind sight I suspect that this was not readily evident.

The information from this referenced post that might be of interest to you:

lkassuba wrote:
If you have the following Preference set when creating your comments: Edit --> Preferences --> Commenting "Copy selected text into Highlight, Cross-Out, and Underline comment pop-ups" you can write all the comments to a separate file with a Batch Sequence.
After I had configured Acrobat's preferences as mentioned above I used the select tool to select some text in a trial PDF and then used the Highlight tool to highlight this text. The result was the text I'd selected was entered into the pop-up note. Using the batch sequence, this text was available in the tab-delimited file.

If the target PDF(s) contain all or almost all such annotations then the resultant *.xls file provides a column (under "Comment") containing the text strings you have selected then highlighted.
A copy-paste into MS Word would get you started.

Be well...

Be well...

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2008-07-31 22:25:28
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pelayeitzu
Registered: Jul 29 2008
Posts: 7
dAKA630,

Well, first of all THANK YOU for your patience and your detailed answers.

I am really glad with the final result and I want to share it with you and of course with the whole community.
I tried this method step by step (and it works perfectly) but the resulting layout was not what I was looking for, so I decided to check the script sequence. After a long time trying to understand it I tried to edit it and it worked. Now I'm just not getting the highlighting text on a .doc file but the text is completely clean from headers (such as author,page,date,type).

thanks again..
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