Problem Highlighting Text in Acrobat 9 Std - Cursor-Highlight Mismatch

I scan and often highlight the pdf documents I scan. I use Acrobat 9 Standard with Windows XP. Sometimes after I convert the page from an image to text so I can highlight text, the actual highlight does not cover the text I mark with my cursor. It sometimes highlights text above or below where my cursor is and on one occasion it was putting the highlight way down at the bottom of the page. Does anyone know why this happens and how I fix it?
socalhkc
2011-01-25

Hi,
You might want to look at the "touch up reading order" in advanced, accessibility options. The document will be tagged and you will see the structure of the page. I suspect that it has formatted the text into columns - you can use this tool to clear the page structure and reformat to make the whole page just text reading from left to right.
BR
John

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