How to Select Text in PDF Using Adobe Acrobat Pro DC | 2025 Full Guide

📄 Struggling to select or copy text in a PDF file? This 2025 Full Guide shows you exactly how to highlight, copy, and select text in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC — even in scanned documents or protected files. 🔍 What You’ll Learn: How to use the Select Tool properly Difference between editable and scanned PDFs Enabling text selection in scanned PDFs (OCR) Troubleshooting when selection doesn’t work How to extract selected text or copy/paste from PDF Highlighting and commenting on selected text 🛠 Features Covered: 🖱 Using the “Selection Tool for Text and Images” 🔍 Checking if the PDF has text or is an image (scanned) 📑 Using OCR (Optical Character Recognition) to recognize text 📝 Highlighting or underlining selected text 📋 Copy-pasting selected text to Word or Notepad 🔒 What to do if the PDF is protected 💼 Best For: Students and researchers extracting notes Professionals reviewing contracts or reports Anyone needing to copy or annotate PDF text Users dealing with scanned documents or locked PDFs 🎓 Bonus Tips: Use Edit - Preferences - Accessibility - Replace Document Colors for easier selection Convert scanned PDFs to text with OCR - Recognize Text - In This File Use Snapshot Tool for images or when text selection fails 🔔 Don’t Forget: 👍 Like the video if this helped, 🔔 Subscribe for more PDF & Acrobat Pro tutorials, and 💬 Comment if you want a guide on “how to extract images from PDFs” next!