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Automating Highlighting and Text Extraction Details

Actiion Wizard tricks and preference settings

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David Dagley
May 31, 2025
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Last week I wrote about Extracting PDF Text Using Markup Tools. The markup tools were used manually by reading the document and physically highlighting words, phrases, or numbers. An example was given to automate the extraction of the highlighted words and organize it into a text string that was used to build a spreadsheet.

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Highlighting Can Be Automated

In the Protection category of the Acrobat Action Wizard lies a feature called Search & Remove Text, which marks words or phrases with redaction annotations.

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