On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 06:51 pm, Duncan Lawson wrote:
Ah yes, forgot about that! The 'Select Text' tool in Reader lets you
highlight and copy text. Although if the PDF is pages and pages and pages,
then OCR could be a quicker method?
Dear Duncan
Some text, not all. It depends entirely how the PDF file was originally designed. I have just tried and although I can select text when I copy and paste in a sample document some of it doesn't paste. Strangely the text in a barcode copies OK but a very common Helvetica doesn't paste in its straight form but does when bold, even at an angle.
I did assume in my original answer that the object of the edit was to end up with a corrected PDF. If not why not just go to the original text? Surely no one types into Acrobat?
Yours
Bob Croxford
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