Copying from pdf file.

[Fish]

Anyone knows it can be done, and how?

[The Avon Lady]

There is a selection icon on the Acrobat Reader toolbar. Click on it and then drag you mouse through the document text you want to copy.

[Perilscope]

The problem with PDF files is that depending on how it is formatted, the text can't be copied at all, it's literally a picture and there is nothing you can do about it. If it's a normal text, you will know by doing what TAL said above.

[Fish]

Yeah right, all I could do was make a picture, not copying the text.

[TteFAboB]

Then you can try the expensive and time consuming method:

Print the PDF, buy a scanner with good resolution, scan what you printed as text-recognition. Depending on how good your scanner is and how crisp, clear and distinct your printed text is, you could get a good txt or Word file out of it.

You can re-use the backside of your printed paper sheets and/or make paper planes out of them. This is actually a good excuse to make paper planes, you know. "What? Oh my, will you look at this. I've just wasted a bunch of paper! It makes me feel slighlty uncomfortable, now I have no alternative but to make paper planes out of them."

Do you know how to make a paper "helicopter" (http://www.paperairplanes.co.uk/heliplan.php)?

[Wim Libaers]

Before you do that, check if your scanner's OCR software can also read from image files. That would allow yout to avoid the printing step.