Elements will extract images from a pdf, but won't import the text. At least in the ver 2 that I have. Since they're up to version 6 or 8 now, that may have changed in newer versions.

I've seen quite a few web postings of pdf files that are apparently made by scanning whole pages and then creating the pdf from the scans. In that case, my Elements would get them all, but of course in that form they're not "searchable text" until you run them separately through OCR.

The "all images" pdf kind is especially common with product catalogs. I find it sort of a semi-boggle of the brain why anyone advertising a product on the web would NOT include the URL for the posting in the pdf so that I wouldn't have to make notes; but in advertising "cleverness" apparently really does outweigh intelligence.

We have Acrobat ver 5 (Standard), which is getting pretty ancient; but our business requirement went away a while ago. We get (I should say "Lin gets" actually) most of the working stuff in the form of actual paper copies from current business associates, and much of the real work is done with archaic things called "pencils." It's amazing how those ancient things actually still work.

John