How to ‘Take a Picture’ of a PDF File
Using Acrobat’s Snapshot tool you can quickly ‘take a picture’ of a page (or part of a page) in a PDF file and paste the image into another program. To use Acrobat’s Snapshot Tool:
- Open a PDF and go to Tools > Select and Zoom > Snapshot Tool
- To capture the entire page, simply click anywhere on the page with the Snapshot tool. The screen will flash and then you’ll be able to paste the page into Microsoft Word or another program by going to Edit > Paste.
- To capture a smaller section of the page, click and hold down with the Snapshot Tool and drag a box.
- A message will appear telling you that the Snapshot Tool was successful. Now we just go to Word or a similar program and paste in the image we captured.
