You could use the method suggested below; or, if the PDF supports it, select
copy as text (or export to text, whatever it's called - in the file menu).
Thus, with the complete file selected as text, you can read it in Notepad or
Select All from it instead and copy it to a Microsoft Word document. All
formatting will be lost, but you can use Word's Fine More... and Find
Special... options if you know how the pdf was laid out - (to make the
document look more respectable)!
-----Original Message-----
From: Adrian Spratt
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 5:55 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [JAWS-Users] How to copy a PDF file?
I know about this problem. sometimes placing focus at the top of the file
and pressing shift-control-end (the select to end of document command) works
better. However, probably the more reliable, though more time-consuming way,
is to take advantage of the JAWS OCR feature by pressing JAWS key+spacebar,
release, then d for document. Alt-tab to the window where OCR is being
performed. JAWS will verbalize when the operation is complete. Since it can
take a while, I usually do some other task and come back to it.
When OCR completes, control+a will work. I first paste the results into an
empty Notepad file. The reason is that the OCR results often appear as
tables, which confuses MS Word no end. Notepad eliminates the tables but
somehow preserves the text sequence. I then select and copy the entire
Notepad file and paste that result into a Word document.
-----Original Message-----
From: JAWS-Users-List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Mr. Ed
Sent: Tuesday, March 07, 2017 11:17 AM
To: JAWS-Users-List 2
Subject: [JAWS-Users] How to copy a PDF file?
Hi Jaws Group,
I have a PDF file that I have opened in Acobat Reader DC. I did the ctrl + A
to highlight the text but it only does this for the first page when I go and
paste it in word. Is there a way I can select the whole PDF file and paste
it in word for reading with Jaws?
Mr. Ed
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