Steps: Open the PDF in Soda PDF, select the text using the "Edit" menu, right-click to copy, and then paste the text into a new text box or another application.

Highlighting text will allow you to copy, and searching the page will showcase results for the phrase entered. There doesn’t seem to be any difference in the viewer from one document to another.

Google is finally addressing this limitation on Chrome for desktop. The browser now supports OCR for scanned PDFs, allowing you to highlight text, copy content, and search within the document.

If you want to extract highlighted text from PDF file as a plain text file, then this post covers some good free PDF Highlight Extractor software to do that.

Jack Wallen shows you how to use the search feature to more efficiently locate the configuration option you need to edit in the nano text editor.