Work Smarter with PDFelement User Guide

Take Screenshot of the PDF

PDFelement offers a built-in screenshot tool that lets you drag to capture any area of a PDF. You can then annotate the capture and copy/save it as text or an image for quick reuse.

Step 1: Enable the Screenshot Tool

• Open your PDF in PDFelement. From the left sidebar, click Tools and select Screenshot.

Enable Tools and choose Screenshot

Step 2: Capture & Use the Floating Toolbar

• Click-drag to select the area you want to capture. A floating toolbar appears with options to:
• Pin the screenshot on screen
• Run OCR on the selected area
• Edit the recognized text in the area
• Erase the selected content
• Translate the selected text
• Apply AI actions (e.g., summary)
• Copy the selection as text or as an image

Perform multiple actions on screenshots