{"id":5025,"date":"2008-04-15T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2008-04-15T14:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/make-non-searchable-pdfs\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T02:32:15","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T09:32:15","slug":"make-non-searchable-pdfs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/make-non-searchable-pdfs\/","title":{"rendered":"Make non-searchable PDFs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/articles-images.sftcdn.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2008\/04\/pdf_icon.jpg\" alt=\"Adobe PDF\" width=\"129\" height=\"129\" align=\"left\" \/>You might be wondering why you would want to make a non-searchable PDF. Think about it: PDFs are generally used for reports. There are cases where you need to show the report to other people but don&#8217;t want them to copy the information easily. Crippling it to the point of being non-searchable is not going to make it fully copy-proof, as whoever wants to get the info eventually will, but it&#8217;s one more step towards protection. The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/acrolaw\/2008\/04\/creating_a_nonsearchable_pdf_fro.html\">Acrobat for Legal Professionals blog<\/a> explains how to make your PDF non-searchable in simple steps with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/adobe-acrobat-professional.en.softonic.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adobe Acrobat<\/a><\/strong>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Open the PDF<\/li>\n<li>Choose <em>File&gt;Print<\/em><\/li>\n<li>Choose <em>AdobePDF <\/em>from the printer list<\/li>\n<li>Click the &#8216;Advanced&#8217; button at the bottom of the window<\/li>\n<li>In &#8216;Advanced Print Setup&#8217; check &#8216;Print As Image&#8217; and choose a dpi under 200 to keep good image quality<\/li>\n<li>Click &#8216;Save As&#8217;, type the name of your document and press OK<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To automate the process just go to <em>File&gt;Print All Documents<\/em>, choose &#8216;AdobePDF&#8217; from the printer list and change the Adobe Output Folder by browsing for the folder or your choice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might be wondering why you would want to make a non-searchable PDF. Think about it: PDFs are generally used for reports. There are cases where you need to show the report to other people but don&#8217;t want them to copy the information easily. Crippling it to the point of being non-searchable is not going &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/make-non-searchable-pdfs\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Make non-searchable PDFs&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2004,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-5025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2004"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5025"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336199,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5025\/revisions\/336199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=5025"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=5025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}