In a PDF document, there are essentially two ways to display text. One way is to embed the text, including its font information, in the document file.

If you want to extract highlighted text from PDF file as a plain text file, then this post covers some good free PDF Highlight Extractor software to do that.

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac.

If you're wanting to convert an image into text, Google Docs has a powerful Optical Character Recognition feature built right in. Here's how to make it work.

How to Copy a PDF File Into PowerPoint. Portable Document Format files can contain many types of data, including images, charts and simple text. If you want to use the information from a PDF in ...

Microsoft Edge provides a feature to highlight text in PDF and save highlighted PDF to your PC. This post shows you how to to highlight and save PDF using Edge.

Removing text from a PDF isn't as easy as drawing a black bar across it. Fortunately, redaction tools let you truly erase sensitive text in Preview, Adobe Acrobat DC Pro, and PDFPen.

Learn how to convert an image into editable text using Microsoft Word. Follow this step-by-step guide to easily extract text from images for editing.

That PDF file is usually the final stop for your project and doesn’t allow for simple editing after it has been exported, unlike a text document or Google Docs file.