Open Adobe READER located in the start menu. Click on Edit and then on Preferences. Select the 'General' category. Click on 'Select default PDF handler' 6. Adobe Reader should be already selected. Change it to reader if it is not. Click on 'Apply' and except changes. Restart the computer and you are done.
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I have a PDF that opens fine in Adobe Reader XI. It displays fine, has no password, etc. I am attempting to save these to text for some automation work, but it isn't working.
When I go to
File->Save As Other->Text
, save it as a .txt file it saves without error.Enable continuous scrolling by default in Adobe Reader Whenever I opened some pdf file and scrolled with the mouse the scrolling was per one page. Sure, you can change this by going to View -> Page Display -> Enable Scrolling. Once I have done update win7->win10 adobe reader stopped proper working and now always there is a question about 'protection mode' due to problem with system configuration. Now when I need to use program which uses adobe, I am not able to do anything.
- Re: 'save as' pop up box does not allow me to save the document. Viktoriaj58871199 Mar 19, 2016 3:46 AM ( in response to kimberleyh61857508 ) My MacBook Pro runs OS X El Capitan and Adobe Acrobat Reader DC does not allow me to use 'save as' function even after I tried the proposed solution within Preferences.
- Mar 27, 2016 Adobe Reader DC Save As.tmp. By waoonetwork on Mar 16, 2016 at 20:35 UTC. Next: acrobat 2017 - unable to. The user has Adobe Reader DC (15.010.20060) and Windows 8.1 Pro. The same PDF file is on 2 other computers that don't have this issue. Both have the same version but one is windows 8.1 Pro and the other is Windows 7 Pro.
When when I view the txt file, it's unreadable. It has data like:
G+G+./,-&6H,GH7-&IE&
I can verify certain PDFs like from AT&T's website work fine with this, but the PDFs I have aren't working. Why is this, how can I convert these to plain text? They aren't password protected or the sort.
This was not OCR. I can highlight words, letters, etc.
I verified under 'Security' on Properties:
Security Method: No Security
Can be Opened by: All versions of Acrobat
Printing: Allowed
Content Copying: Allowed
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PDFs can be created in a variety of ways. If the PDF was created via a scanner, it may or may not have gone through an OCR (optical character recognition). If OCR was performed, you would have a text layer that somewhat corresponds to the layout of the graphical layer (what you normally see). The text accuracy of OCR is rarely 100%. If you printed to PDF from say Google Docs or Microsoft Word, then text layer would be 100% accurate. It sounds like the PDF you are trying to save is the former.
The easiest way I've found to test and view the text layer is to use a free PDF reader called Foxit Reader. They have a view tab with a 'Text Viewer' option. See the screenshot below. If the text layer is showing garbled text, this will explain why in Adobe Reader XI's 'Save As Other > Text' is displaying garbled text.
As they say, garbage in, garbage out (GIGO).
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