Create hyperlinks in a flat pdf

For reasons i have created a flat pdf (around150 pages).
I create buttons and links in Acrobat Pro XI.
I run the "create links from urls" function, but only few hyperlinks are recognized.
It seems that not even if they starts with www. they are recognized.
Do I rally have to go through the document searching for urls?
BR Nina Storm

If you select the URL text with the mouse and copy it to another application, does it look correct?
I believe the links detection algorithm requires http:// at the start to correctly identify a URL, though.
But a script can be used to detect URLs that do not have this prefix, and then place a link on top of them.

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