I also tried the same procedure again on my Surface Pro, here it worked previously, with no success. Since I upgraded my Office to Office 13, I thought it would work on my Dell desktop, windows 7 and Office 13). I had done this exact thing on my Surface Pro previously (Windows 10 and Office 13), and it all worked as it should have.
#How to redact a pdf document in word pdf#
I hit that button, but it did NOT allow editing.īut, at the end, I got the same effect as if I had simply copied and pasted the pdf file into a word document. I got a message saying it might take some time, based on the complexity and size of the file.Īt the end, I was told the file was saved in Protected View, but I could press the "allow editing" button if I wanted to edit the file. I got a message that said that Word would convert the pdf file to anĮditable Word file, which is what I wanted. I right-clicked on the file, selected "open with", and tried to open with Word. The OneNote option was the same as what I had done before. As computer scientists we are trained to communicate with the dumbest things in the world – computers – so you’d think we’d be able to communicate quite well with people. Some will capture more of the formatting info than OneNote does.
Or you can use a separate tool to do the OCR. You can paste it into OneNote or directly into Word for editing.
Then right click on it and select Copy text from This Page / All Pages of the Printout. In OneNote 2016 (I think it is same in 2013.) go to Insert tab > Files group > File Printout to get the PDF into One Note. That text is all that Word can access.Īctually, OneNote does a better job of OCR. What Word does is very limited, IF the PDF has been saved in the right PDF format, the text is stored separatelyįrom the images. To do that you need a program that does "OCR" to extract the text from the static PDF images. Word does not actually allow you to "edit" PDF files.