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On 23 Feb 2014, at 09:54, Toby Leighton <[email protected]> wrote: > Try copy pasting that text into textedit and then converting to plain text > (format menu in textedit) PDFs embed part of the font inside them so the > squares either mean you don't have the right font installed, or that the OCR > couldn't detect the letters. > > > On 23 February 2014 08:51, Keith Scott <[email protected]> wrote: > Jason > > You may find the LaTeX tutorial informative at > http://www.unc.edu/depts/econ/egsa/LaTeX.pdf > LaTeX contains formatting instructions which almost certainly are upsetting > your copy & paste attempts > > I am using Acrobat 5 on MacOSX 10.4.11 as I have an Omnis database requiring > OS9 Classic > > Is it possible to produce a PDF file from your LaTeX file ? > Then you could probably do a copy and paste from there > > Keith > ============================================================== > > Jason Davies wrote: > > 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... > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Sussex Mac User Group" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
