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Learn how to easily add text content to non-editable PDF files using two methods in this article. Solve your problems with PDF file editing.



I. How to insert text content into a PDF file?

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There are two ways to add text content to a PDF file. One is to open the file with software that supports browsing and editing PDF files and add text directly; the other is to use a professional format conversion tool to convert the PDF file first. After creating an editable file, add text content. Let’s take a look at these two different ways.

1. Use Renee PDF Aide to add text to PDF files

It is very easy to add text content to PDF files with the help of Renee PDF Aide . You can use its format conversion function to convert PDF files into editable files first, and then add text content. It is very convenient. Let’s understand Let’s look at the specific operation steps.
What is Renee PDF Aide?
Renee PDF Aide , is a multifunctional tool software that integrates PDF file editing and format conversion. The software integrates advanced OCR (Optical Character Recognition) technology, which can convert scanned PDF files into common format files such as Word/Excel/PowerPoint/Image/HTML/TXT, and you can choose to convert the entire PDF document or PDF document The specified page can be quickly converted into other formats, and the conversion speed can be as high as 80 pages per minute. The software is easy to operate and has various functions. It can not only optimize and edit specific pages of PDF format files, such as repairing damaged files, optimizing the loading time of large files, splitting multi-page files, and combining multiple specified pages into one PDF file. , adjust the display angle of the file, etc., you can also encrypt/decrypt PDF files, add multi-form watermarks to exclusive files, etc.
In addition, Renee PDF Aide also supports the conversion of English/French/German/Italian/Spanish/Portuguese/Chinese/Korean/Japanese and other multi-language texts. In OCR mode, selecting the corresponding recognition language can greatly improve the accuracy of character recognition , The conversion efficiency is extremely high, even computer beginners can easily handle it.
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how Add text to PDF files?
Renee PDF Aide has two functions, one is to meet the basic editing operations on PDF files; the other is The function is to convert PDF format files into other commonly used format files. Let’s take a look at how to use Renee PDF Aide’s format conversion function to achieve the purpose of adding text to PDF files.
The operation steps are very simple, the specific process is as follows:
Step 1: Download and install Renee PDF Aide, run the software, select the “Convert PDF” option.
Convert PDF option function bar
Step 2: After entering the format conversion interface, choose to convert the PDF file into an editable format file, such as Word/Excel/PowerPoint/TXT and other format files. Then import the PDF file that needs format conversion into Renee PDF Aide through the “Add File” button. Then, you can check the “Enable OCR” option, the purpose is to improve the text recognition rate during the format conversion process.
Select the menu bar interface
Instructions for enabling OCR technology:
In Renee PDF Aide, enabling OCR technology includes two functions. Right now
A. Recognize text in pictures or PDF scans. This option can recognize text in pictures or PDF scans, and the accuracy of text recognition can be further improved with the help of OCR technology.
B. Identify built-in fonts (to avoid garbled characters). This option is applicable to the situation where there are built-in fonts in the PDF source file, which can avoid garbled characters after the format conversion is completed.
Step 3: After the settings are complete, click the “Convert” button on the right to start converting the PDF file into other editable file formats, which is very convenient and quick. After the operation is completed, open the converted file and add corresponding text content to it.
Start converting the user interface

2. Use Adobe Acrobat Pro software to insert text content into PDF files

Adobe Acrobat Pro is a software specially launched by Adobe for editing PDF format files. The operation function of this software is very powerful. With it, you can not only create new PDF documents, but also create and save PDF format documents for subsequent browsing and printing. Perform basic editing operations on chains and other content. In addition, as the original application software in PDF format, Adobe Acrobat Pro has also set up many detailed operation functions, such as encrypting PDF files; adding electronic signatures and comments; sharing files in real time with multiple terminals; providing tools for adding multimedia content , such as video tools, flash tools, 3D tools, sound tools and so on.
It is very easy to insert text content into PDF files with the help of Adobe Acrobat Pro software. The specific steps are as follows:
Step 1: Download and run the Adobe Acrobat Pro software, find “File” – “Open” in the top menu bar (or directly use the shortcut key: Ctrl+O), and import the PDF file that needs to add text content into the software.
Run Adobe Acrobat Pro software
Step 2: Next, find the “View” – “Toolbar” – “Typewriter Tool” option in the top menu bar, and then a long bar-shaped “Typewriter Tool” function operation pop-up window will pop up on the page.
Select the Typewriter Toolbar
Step 3: Then click the “Typewriter Tool” button with the left mouse button, then drag the mouse and you will find that the mouse arrow turns into an “A”-shaped text adding button, and then you can place the mouse anywhere in the PDF file It’s time to add text content.
Select typewriter tool button
tipsThe typewriter toolbar not only supports adding text content, but you can also reduce and enlarge the text of the selected text, reduce and increase the line spacing of the selected text, modify the text color, text font and text font size and other functions.
Step 4: After inserting the text, close the “Typewriter Tool” toolbar. If there is no other editing operation, go back to the top menu bar and find “File” – “Export” or “Save As”, and you can save the PDF file to in the preset position.
Save the edited PDF file
The above is how to insert text into a PDF file. Although Adobe Acrobat Pro software can achieve the purpose of adding text, the price of this software is relatively high, and it is not suitable for users with ordinary needs. Therefore, it is recommended that you give priority to using the more cost-effective High Renee PDF Aide to operate. If you also need to extract text from PDF scans or images for other purposes, then you can take a look at the following.

II. How to use the conversion OCR function of Renee PDF Aide to extract the text in the picture file?

In order to better help you identify text in pictures and scanned documents, Renee PDF Aide also specially added an OCR recognition function, which aims to help users better identify text content in various scanned documents and image files, such as When the file you want to extract text is saved in JPG/PNG/BMP format, you can use this function to achieve the purpose of text extraction. Let’s take a look at how to use this function.
The specific operation steps are as follows:
Step 1: Run Renee PDF Aide, select the “Convert PDF” option.
Convert PDF Options Bar
Step 2: After entering the operation page, select the “OCR” option button on the far right of the top menu bar. Next, import the files that need to recognize text (such as JPG/PNG/BMP) into Renee PDF Aide through the “Add File” button. In addition, in order to better recognize the text content in the picture with the help of OCR technology, you can select the corresponding OCR language according to the text language in the picture. If the language corresponding to the file has not been installed, you can click the “Options” button or ” +Language pack” to add the corresponding language pack.
Image OCR operation interface
Step 3: After the setting is complete, click the “Convert” button on the right to start the command to convert the image file into a TXT text file, which is very convenient and quick. After waiting for a while, you can find the converted text content at the preset location, and proceed to the next step of editing or text extraction.
Note: The conversion speed will be affected by the file size, the larger the file, the longer the waiting time.
Transfer out the text content interface
The above are several functions in the “Convert PDF” function bar of Renee PDF Aide, which can achieve the purpose of converting various formats and extracting text content. If you want to perform a series of editing operations on PDF files, you can enter the “PDF Toolset” after running Renee PDF Aide, and you can perform many personalized editing operations on PDF files, such as repair, optimization, splitting, and merging , rotation, encryption/decryption, watermark, image to PDF, etc.