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How to highlight PDF on MacBook Pro with DocHub

DocHub is a powerful online tool that streamlines document editing, signing, and distribution, allowing you to manage your PDFs with ease. With its seamless integration with Google Workspace, our platform empowers users to import, modify, and sign documents directly from their favorite Google apps, ensuring a smooth workflow. Whether you need to highlight text for emphasis or annotate documents for collaboration, DocHub offers an intuitive editor that is perfect for MacBook Pro users.

Follow the steps to highlight your PDF:

Open the DocHub website in your preferred web browser and log in to your account.
Upload the PDF document you wish to highlight by using the upload option from your files.
Once the document is loaded in the editor, select the highlighting tool, typically represented by a marker icon.
Click and drag over the text you want to highlight. Adjust the highlight color if desired from the options available.
Continue highlighting any other sections of the document as needed to emphasize key points.
After completing your highlights, you can save the document, or choose to download, print, or share it directly from the platform.

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How do I highlight on a PDF?

How to highlight a PDF. Select the highlighter tool from the horizontal toolbox located at the top of the PDF editor. Select the desired color of your highlighter tool. Click and drag the cursor to select the text area to highlight, releasing when youve finished.

Why cant I highlight text in PDF?

The document is secured or protected To keep the PDF document secure, the author or distributor may have disabled edits and comments, which means that those viewing and using the document cannot highlight text on it.

How do you highlight text on a Macbook Pro?

Highlight text Press Shift-Command-H on the keyboard. Choose Insert Highlight from the Insert menu at the top of your screen. (The Insert button on the Pages toolbar doesnt have the Highlight command.) Click Highlight in the review toolbar at the top of the document.

Why cant I highlight pdfs on my Mac?

The Text Selection tool may not be selected: Choose Tools Text Selection, or click the Show Markup Toolbar button , then click the Text Selection button . The PDF may require a password before you can select or copy text: Choose Tools Show Inspector, click the Encryption Inspector button , then enter the password.

Why cant I highlight text in a PDF?

The most common reason that you cant highlight PDF documents is because the document doesnt actually contain any real text. Instead, it contains scanned text, which is essentially an image of the text. In this case, you wont be able to highlight, underline, strikethrough, or edit this text in any way.

How to mark in a PDF file?

How to annotate PDF files: Open a PDF in Acrobat and select the Comment tool. Add PDF annotations to your file. You can add text boxes and sticky notes, underline text, strikethrough content, highlight text and more. Save your file.

How to make PDF text selectable?

To make a PDF searchable using docHub, you can follow these steps: Open docHub on your computer. Click Open. Find and select the document you want to make searchable, then click Open. Head to Tools and select Recognize Text. Press PDF Output Style Searchable Image. Select OK.

How can I highlight and copy text from a PDF?

Copy specific content from a PDF Right-click the document, and choose Select Tool from the pop-up menu. Drag to select text, or click to select an image. Right-click the selected item, and choose Copy.

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