Re: [MacGroup] copy text in a PDF file

2018-02-02 Thread tom
Thanks John and Russ. That worked. Tom Guenthner > On Feb 2, 2018, at 12:04 AM, John Robinson wrote: > > Tom, > > On the Mac I use Acrobat from Adobe, you can copy text from a PDF with that > software. > > I’m winding down for the day when your question came

Re: [MacGroup] copy text in a PDF file

2018-02-01 Thread John Robinson
Tom, On the Mac I use Acrobat from Adobe, you can copy text from a PDF with that software. I’m winding down for the day when your question came in, so I loaded a PDF from an IBM article on the iPad about deep learning. Opening the PDF in iBooks allows you to drag around the text you want &

Re: [MacGroup] copy text in a PDF file

2018-02-01 Thread preston....@twc.com
i.e.: copied text from the PDF, then pasted text into the new intended file. -russ > On Feb 1, 2018, at 11:34 PM, preston@twc.com wrote: > > As long as it’s actually text (not a placed graphic) within the PDF doc, I > have opened a PDF in Preview and copy/paste the text info. > > -russ

Re: [MacGroup] copy text in a PDF file

2018-02-01 Thread preston....@twc.com
As long as it’s actually text (not a placed graphic) within the PDF doc, I have opened a PDF in Preview and copy/paste the text info. -russ preston > On Feb 1, 2018, at 11:09 PM, tom wrote: > > Is there a free application that has the ability to copy text in a PDF file?