Copy from .PDF
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catso

Original Poster:

16,483 posts

297 months

Tuesday 20th September 2005
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Can anyone tell me the best way of copying text from a .pdf file to paste into a word document (without typing all info out manually).

Thanks for any help.

:beer:

JonRB

80,071 posts

302 months

Tuesday 20th September 2005
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Depends on the author of the PDF and whether they ticked the box marked "disable copy & paste" or not.

Plotloss

67,280 posts

300 months

Tuesday 20th September 2005
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If theres a button at the top of the document in reader that says select text, press it.

If not the author has protected it.

catso

Original Poster:

16,483 posts

297 months

Tuesday 20th September 2005
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Many thanks, that saved me a lot of typing

zumbruk

7,848 posts

290 months

Tuesday 20th September 2005
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Plotloss said:
If theres a button at the top of the document in reader that says select text, press it.

If not the author has protected it.


And if they have, do a Google for "pdf2txt" and download one of the zillion utilities that will convert pdf's to text.