Undoubtedly, Portable Document Format a.k.a PDF is one of the most secure ways of sending the document without running the content and the formatting of a document. This is one of the main reasons that most of the books, important documents and forms are sent in this format. Sometimes, you may want to highlight text in PDF to make an emphasis or comment on specific items. Now let’s learn how to accomplish the task.
Wondershare PDFelement ( PDFelement for Mac) is a user-friendly and feature enriched program, which let you easily edit approximately every aspect of this document. For instance, you can either add the new text to your PDF file or can permanently delete the text in your PDF file. In addition, the powerful annotating features include the highlighting of the text, commenting on the PDF file, adding notes and using typewriting option for that particular document.
One distinguished feature which is not present in most of the PDF editors is the OCR which will let you scan the image for the text and users can convert this image into the text file. You will also be able to convert PDF files from or to images, webpages and document formats.
Once you have downloaded PDFelement, click on it and run it. Follow the easy steps to install it on your computer. Unlike most of the computer, Wondershare PDFelement does not have a complex installation wizard. All you have to do is to click 2-3 times and the program will be installed within a few seconds.
Open the program and from the Home window click on the "Open" button. Select the PDF file and click on the "Open" button again. Then the file will be opened in PDFelement.
In order to highlight the text in the PDF file, click on the "Comment" tab and then select the "Highlight" button. Now, move the cursors and hold the left click to highlight the text in your PDF file. If you want to highlight a large area at a time, you can choose the "Area Highlight" button.
Once you have highlighted the text, you can also edit the text or the images in the PDF file. Click on the "Edit" tab on the top bar and select the function accordingly. You can either edit the text in the PDF file, edit the image, add new text or image and even the link in the PDF file. All of these functions are pretty much easy to use. Simply select one function and use select the area of the PDF file where you want to apply that function.
After highlighting the text or making other changes to your PDF file, when you will close it, a new dialogue will pop-up on the screen asking you to save the changes before they can be applied to the PDF file. Click on "Yes" to make them effective.
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