"Insert Files as Printouts"

[T. Wise]

Pretty handy feature. Today, I inserted a PDF document into a OneNote page,
and it raised a few questions:

1) What's the best way to turn that inserted PDF into text I can edit in
OneNote?

2) Using "Insert files as printouts" brings each page from the PDF into a
separate container in my OneNote page. How can I get them all into one
container?

3) The individual containers (one page per container) show up on the screen
larger than I want. So one by one I manually pulled the edges in to make
them a better, smaller size. Is there an easier way to do this? Any way to
shrink them all the same time, or better yet, inport them in the size I
want?

4) Once I started shrinking the containers, it left large gaps between them.
I manually pulled the containers up to fill those gaps. Any way of doing
this automatically?

Thanks in advance ....

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

1) All you really can do is right-click and say copy text and paste it
elsewhere. I wouldn't rely on ON though to get you text out of a PDF. It
does it by trying to recognize the characters and that is a pretty bad
way of doing it. If you really want the text, select and copy it from
within Acrobat Reader.
2) Can't
3) Change the zoom level to something lower or switch to full page
viewing mode. OneNote doesn't have the same kind of concept of a page as
Word e.g., so if something appears too small on your screen, setting a
lower zoom is the easiest thing to do.

Patrick Schmid [OneNote MVP]
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[Rainald Taesler]

T. Wise shared these words of wisdom:

1) What's the best way to turn that inserted PDF into text I can
edit in OneNote?

You could do it inside ON by marking the wanted text and then use the
right-muse menu to copy the marked aera as text.
As the PDFs printed into ON are images treated with automatic OCR the
results may have some recognition errors.
As to my experience one gets ways better results if one extracts the
text *outside* ON (in Acrobat or rthe Reader).

2) Using "Insert files as printouts" brings each page from the PDF
into a separate container in my OneNote page. How can I get them
all into one container?

Only by opening a contianer and mvong the individual images there
(drag+drop or cut+paste).

3) The individual containers (one page per container) show up on
the screen larger than I want. So one by one I manually pulled the
edges in to make them a better, smaller size. Is there an easier
way to do this? Any way to shrink them all the same time, or
better yet, inport them in the size I want?

No, none of these wishes can be fulfilled with the present version.
Ypou might enter a suggestion in Connect so that the developers might
work on this issue for the next version.
IMO printing into ON is not yet close to what would be needed.

4) Once I started shrinking the containers, it left large gaps
between them. I manually pulled the containers up to fill those
gaps. Any way of doing this automatically?

No. It has to be done manually.

Rainald