Extracting Text and Pictures from PDF Documents

With ABBYY PDF Transformer 3.0 you can:

  • select areas on pages of a PDF document and save them as images via a shortcut menu;
  • extract text fragments from a PDF document.

To extract a picture from a PDF document:

  1. On your PDF document, select an area of type Picture.
  2. Right-click on the area and select Copy Picture from the shortcut menu.
  3. Paste the copied picture into the application of your choice.

To extract a text fragment:

  1. Right-click on the desired area of type Text and select Copy Text from the shortcut menu.
  2. Paste the copied text into an application of your choice.
PDF Transformer advice Extracting Text and Pictures from PDF Documents You can create a new area manually or run automated page analysis.
Creating a new area
Running automated page analysis

To run automated analysis, do one of the following:

  • select the PDF Transformer analyzetool Extracting Text and Pictures from PDF Documents tool on the toolbar
  • press Ctrl+F
  • in the Pages window, select Show Areas from the shortcut menu

Extracting Text and Pictures from PDF Documents