Can not select text inside my PDF

[GrowingSuccess]

I have imported a PDF of a planner I made. At the beginning of each week I inserted some text, so I could add a hyperlink. For some reason I can not select anything at all inside the image, not the numbers of the days nor the text for each week. I have managed to hyperlink all the tabs though! Screenshot attached for reference. Very new to this, so any direction would be greatly appreciated. 

[Komatös]

Hello @GrowingSuccess

It looks to me like all the pages have been imported as an image.

After selecting the PDF file, the selection window with PDF options appears. Both options should be ticked there.

[GrowingSuccess]

Hmmm... Originally I opened a new file then added the pages from a file, so I never got the box. This time around, I opened it directly from the file and made sure both boxes were checked. See screenshot.  I still can not select anything to edit on the page... second screenshot. 

[BofG]

1 hour ago, GrowingSuccess said:

I still can not select anything to edit on the page... second screenshot.

It looks like your PDF might only contain images - if you open that PDF in Adobe Reader can you select any of the text there?

[GarryP]

If your original document, the one you are exporting to PDF before placing in Publisher, contains Adjustments or Filters or Effects then they may be forcing the software to rasterise some layers upon export. If you have an adjustment/filter/effect which covers the entire page then this may force the software to rasterise the whole page.

Having said that, the selected layer in your first attached image says that it is an Image layer, rather than an Embedded Document or Linked Document so I don’t know what’s happened there as placing a PDF into a document should show as Embedded or Linked, rather than Image, depending on your Image Placement Policy.
Are you absolutely sure you are placing the correct file? It can be very easy to get the files mixed up if you’re not careful.

[R C-R]

10 hours ago, GarryP said:

Having said that, the selected layer in your first attached image says that it is an Image layer ...

FWIW, there is a "Convert to Image Resource" step visible in the History panel.

[GrowingSuccess]

It looks like your PDF might only contain images - if you open that PDF in Adobe Reader can you select any of the text there?

Good call BofG, no such luck. I guess it's back to the drawing board...

GarryP, I am certain that the file is a PDF. How or why it turns up as an image is beyond me. It's actually over 400 pages, so it is several PDF files. See screenshot.

RC-R, what on earth does that mean? Could I have inadvertently messed it up on myself? Is there an undo button?

I am guessing this means I have to recreate the original files. 

[walt.farrell]

8 hours ago, GrowingSuccess said:

How or why it turns up as an image is beyond me.

What is the history of the PDF? Did you create it originally or get it from someone else? If you created it, how, and with what program?

[R C-R]

13 hours ago, GrowingSuccess said:

RC-R, what on earth does that mean? Could I have inadvertently messed it up on myself? Is there an undo button?

It means that at some point you converted something to an image resource, but it is not clear what that thing was.

If you saved the history with the file or it is still open, you can use the History panel to go back to the step before the conversion, but since we do not know what you converted, it may or may not help.

[GrowingSuccess]

RC-R, thanks, I tried going back a step and that did nothing. I tried going back to the beginning of my document merge and that too did nothing. 

Walt, I created the PDF through Canva with grid templates.