inserting pdf to onenote without converting pages to images

There is always the option to convert the PDF to Word (as long as it is not protected) then insert it into ON.  I use ABBYY  PDF Transformer which works quite well for this purpose and does its best to retain the formatting.  Then you could print the Word file to ON.

Bill

Is there a way to insert a PDF onto onenote while keeping the textin pages as text and not images of text?

Yes, use Copy & Paste.

Rainald

Thank you for this question, as this is an issue I am having as well.  I

have a client that I am working with and they often send their projects to

me as PDFs. But, thus far I have not been able to edit them even taking them

into OneNote with OCR.

It would be easier to be able to edit the PDF and then return it for them to

follow up with on their end. As you say, it will insert as an image and that

does not work for me. I don't see the advantage of having to copy the text

and then paste it in another window or application to edit it and then send

it back. This is totally inefficient and provides little benefit of the

program says it will do.

I would think it would allow the PDF to be fully editable and then printed

to the PDF printer, but, that is not the case, at least not here with

OneNote 2007 or 2010.

Jan :)

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> When I print a PDF to onenote, it converts the pdf pages to images and

> inserts them. this is very unefficient. i cant zoom the one-note text w/o

> ruining quality anymore as they are rendered as images and not text. to

> seach for text, it has to do OCR, which it often does incorrectly.

>

> Is there a way to insert a PDF onto onenote while keeping the text in

> pages as text and not images of text?

>

Copy & paste will only work if the PDF is not protected and the file

was created by a PDF printer - and then the output loses all

formatting including graphics.

Yes, this are the drawbacks.

But the question does have merit. I archive most all of my paper with

a scanner that produces a PDF. Then I OCR the output so that the file

is searchable.

Yes, but when importing PDFs into ON the OCR-layer which Acrobat

produces is not used.

There are definately times I would like to have the

file 'sent to OneNote' as a true printout with the PDF formatting and

graphics -

What do you mean by that?

not simply a picture that "send to OneNote" produces. I

assume something like that is not possible without a significant

amount of programming.

AFAICS a true PDF import would need quite some work and skills.

However, it is possible to make printouts of PDF files within OneNote

searchable with the OneNote function and that does help.

Right. But in so far there are serious bugs in ON2010 (which is worked

on).

Rainald

Copy & paste will only work if the PDF is not protected and the file was created by a PDF printer - and then the output loses all formatting including graphics. 

But the question does have merit.  I archive most all of my paper with a scanner that produces a PDF.  Then I OCR the output so that the file is searchable. There are definately times I would like to have the file 'sent to OneNote' as a true printout with the PDF formatting and graphics - not simply a picture that "send to OneNote" produces.  I assume something like that is not possible without a significant amount of programming.

However, it is possible to make printouts of PDF files within OneNote searchable with the OneNote function and that does help.

Bill