Why Preview Won’t Highlight Some PDFs on Mac and What You Can Do

Preview usually refuses to highlight a PDF because the words on the page are images rather than selectable text. This often happens with scanned paperwork, photographed pages and PDFs exported without a proper text layer, even though the document looks normal on screen. Apple now documents an Embed Text option in Preview that can recognize text in... Weiterlesen: Why Preview Won’t Highlight Some PDFs on Mac and What You Can Do