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The Fifth Annual Investintech-CAJ Journalism Scholarship for 2023-2024 Is Now Open

We’ve got great news for all you aspiring journalists out there! We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our fifth Investintech – CAJ Data Journalism Scholarship, and are now accepting applications for the 2023-2024 academic year.

This scholarship is a great opportunity for post-secondary Canadian students who are interested in a career in journalism. With prizes to help you, the budding journalist, both financially and with opportunities for your career, the scholarship offers you a head start in the journalism industry.

Got journalistic work that you’re proud of? Wondering if you have what it takes to be a data journalist? Apply today!

We cover everything you need to know.

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How to Convert Parts of a Scanned PDF (with OCR)

We all know that dealing with PDF documents is difficult, and when you work with a scanned PDF, those difficulties can quickly pile up and impact your productivity.

The difficulties start when you work with a scanned PDF document and don’t even know it. You can’t easily work with the page’s content and trying a usual conversion doesn’t produce any results. Moreover, just dealing with the content itself is another matter on its own when you can’t extract only the content you want.

Despite these obstacles, there are ways to get around them so you can work with scanned documents on a granular level.

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How to Search for PDF Text Online

Working online means using digital tools. Whether that means a browser, a note-taking app or document viewer, all your work is going to be online.

This is cumbersome, though, when you need to research or look something up if you’re dealing with an in-depth and authoritative document. Think white papers, prospectuses, scientific studies, and statistical reports.

In all instances, you may need some extra help and need a fast way to search your way through dense PDF content.

Here is where Able2Extract Pro comes in handy. The latest version of our all-in-one PDF converter, editor, creator and form filler has also stepped up its game as a PDF viewer too.

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How Able2Extract Pro Boosts Your PDF Workflow With MS Office 2021

Boost Microsoft Office 2021 workflow with Able2Extract PDF software

One of the biggest changes to happen for anyone who works with digital documents was the release of Microsoft Office 2021. The latest version of the suite includes a set of new improvements to your favorite applications, enhancing the way you create and work with digital files.

However, along with the new changes you may start wondering what it means for your usual document workflow, and by extension, the PDF documents you rely upon.

Can you still create professional-looking PDFs? Can you secure the content you just created? Is your PDF converter compatible with Microsoft Office 2021?

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How to Do Word Count in PDF Without Acrobat

No content gets approved or goes online without some editing, revision, or review. With more people working online and digital content being created and posted daily, that content review process naturally happens digitally. This is why there are so many document reviewing tools online.

From grammar to spelling, there are tools for anything having to do with proofreading articles and drafts. There may be times in particular when you will want to count the words in a document to ensure its length fits your topic appropriately, meets your readers’ expectations, and that it will stand out in credibility to search engines like Google.

If you’re editing or reviewing a document or article, you may be dealing with a PDF document sent to you. This could be for proofreading a business brochure or perhaps an essay draft. Locking it down in PDF format ensures that you get the exact text the author put together. Doing a word count, though simple, is important to meeting length requirements.

So how do you do a word count in PDF? We know that PDF content is hard to interact with, but in this blog post, we cover a few tools that can help you do a word count for PDF.

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