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

Adobe provides a plug-in for most text-based word processing applications that enables you to convert your files to PDFs. Once you have converted the files, you can read the documents in Adobe Reader. Others can read the content as well but are not able to make changes to your file. You can download the Adobe PDF Reader for free from the Adobe website
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Microsoft provides instructions for converting files to PDFs both on their website

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and in the Help documentation in each of its applications.

 

Tip

When searching for help, use the search term "save file as pdf" as the search term.

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

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  1. Open your text file in its original format (such as .doc , or .xls, etc).)
  2. Click File > Print.
  3. In the Print window, click the PDF button at the bottom-left and select the Save as PDF option.
  4. Choose the file location, rename your PDF file, and then click Save.