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.
Abstractors 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.
Microsoft provides instructions for converting files to PDFs both on their website
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When searching for help, use the search term "save file as pdf".
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
- Open your text file in its original format (.doc, .xls, etc.)
- Click File > Print.
- In the Print window, click the PDF button at the bottom-left and select the Save as PDF option.
- Choose the file location, rename your PDF file, and then click Save.