Easier Way to Yellow Highlight Scanned Documents?

[LizW]

I work at a law office and the attorneys often need to
pasted in scanned pdf documents, and then "call out"
certain portions and highlight in yellow these portions.
This is accomplished in one of three ways:
1. Retype the text to be magnified in a text box and use
the text yellow highlighter. This takes time and trouble
but looks very bright in a screen show.
2. Drag a box over the scanned graphic, color it yellow,
make it 60% transparent. This is pale in a screen show and
doesn't look good. It is also time intensive.
3. Paste the PDF portion in as a JPEG, use the
transparency tool to take away all white in the graphic,
and then draw an autoshape with a color to set behind the
black text.

This looks the best but is time intensive.

Has anyone else had luck with this issue? Is there a
better way in PowerPoint to accomplish this? Or is there a
software add-in or another program that is better at
letting you highlight in yellow over a graphic?

 

[David M. Marcovitz]

Perhaps someone else can suggest a PowerPoint solution, but I'm wondering
why you don't copy and paste text from the PDF document, rather than
retype (in your solution number 1).
--David

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Director of Graduate Programs in Educational Technology
Loyola College in Maryland
Author of _Powerful PowerPoint for Educators_
http://www.loyola.edu/education/PowerfulPowerPoint/

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

Perhaps someone else can suggest a PowerPoint solution, but I'm wondering
why you don't copy and paste text from the PDF document, rather than
retype (in your solution number 1).

If it's a scanned PDF document, there won't be any text to select.

Running it through Acrobat's OCR process might work to convert the scanned
image-of-text to real text, though.


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[Guest]

We can do that also, and then highlight it. The thing is,
the attorneys want it to look like it is from the actual
authentic document. So my main problem is to
somehow "highlight" a graphic with yellow, as if it was
editable text.

 

[Sonia]

Then your method 2 is the best solution unless the attorneys would accept a red
rectangle drawn around the text, for example, or a bold yellow rectangle. That
would be a lot faster. Draw a rectangle, give it "no fill" and assign a color to
the line and give the line a wide style. Once you've done that, with the
rectangle selected go to Format > Autoshape and click the box that says "Default
for new objects". Then you can double click on the rectangle tool and keep
drawing rectangles wherever you need them because the tool will remain active on
that slide until you click on it again to toggle it off.

 

[Steve Rindsberg]

We can do that also, and then highlight it. The thing is,
the attorneys want it to look like it is from the actual
authentic document.

That's what I kinda figured.

So my main problem is to
somehow "highlight" a graphic with yellow, as if it was
editable text.

I think I'd copy/paste the image from PDF into Photoshop or some other image
editor, select the area of interest and then have it replace all the white
pixels with yellow within the selected area.

Then save as a new image and insert that into PPT.


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