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.

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.

How to Save Part of a PDF File to Another File. PDF files are text-based documents that can include links, photographs and other media. They're typically opened with Adobe Acrobat or as read-only ...

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.