On 22 Feb 2014, at 23:01, Keith Scott wrote:
Using Acrobat, have you tried using the TEXT SELECT or COLUMN SELECT
tool
Options are shown as "T" in the menu as attached
I use this regularly to copy & paste selected areas of text from PDF
files into MSWord
(is that the latest version? 11 doesn't look like that...) Not sure if
I'm doing what you suggest but when I copy the the text I get garbage:
this reads as the word 'instantaneous' for example but copied and pasted
it is:
that's even though the text seems perfectly ok. We are finding ingenious
ways to prevent plagiarism software from being able to find anything.
This particular file is actually a LaTeX file so it's baffling (but in
this case I suspect it's ANSI-encoding somehow getting garbled when
treated as UTF or something).
It does look like you can't easily edit the 'hidden text' behind OCR in
Acrobat. Quite weird really given that OCR is still so hit and miss...
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