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exact reproduction of the original format (which will be hard to edit in Word,
because text will be in hard-to-manage text boxes) to text-only output that
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two options for the kind of format preserved during output.
EDITING PDFS
FineReader’s feature set for basic PDF editing is essentially the same that you’ll
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apps. You can create forms, digitally sign documents, redact pictures or text,
add watermarks, apply Bates numbering to PDFs made up of multiple
documents with separate page numbers, and much more.
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indexing feature found in Kofax Power PDF and Adobe Acrobat, which can
speed up text search dramatically. Two years ago, for unexplained reasons,
Adobe disabled the feature that uses full-text indexing for fast searching, but
you can still re-enable it with a registry hack. On the other hand, FineReader,
unlike Acrobat, displays a list of all search results in a sidebar panel, so you can
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FineReader may have the advantage in text-searching.