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Converting Documents to PDFs

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Abstractors use the information provided in the documents you upload in Registration to validate and complete trial data in Protocol Abstraction (PA). To facilitate data entry, the abstractors may copy and paste information from your documents into fields in the PA interface.
Trial-related documents uploaded as Microsoft Word (.doc), Microsoft Excel (.xls, .xlsx, .xlsm, or .xlsb), and WordPerfect files, contain text that abstractors can copy and paste directly. PDFs (portable document format) contain text that abstractors can copy if the content was created from other text-based applications such as Word or Excel.

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titleAbstractors can not copy and paste text from scanned documents

 Avoid uploading PDFs of scanned documents. They can not be edited, copied, or read with OCR (optical character recognition) applications.

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You don’t need a document converter in Mac OSX. Instead, print your documents to a PDF file.

How to Convert Text-Based Files to PDFs in Mac OSX

Converting Files to PDFs - Include v4.4
Converting Files to PDFs - Include v4.4

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Registering Abbreviated (Industrial and Other) Trials

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