Copying from pdf file.

Fish · 09-12-06, 01:33 PM

Anyone knows it can be done, and how?

The Avon Lady · 09-12-06, 01:37 PM

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 · 09-12-06, 02:00 PM

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 · 09-13-06, 09:01 AM

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

TteFAboB · 09-13-06, 09:26 AM

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"?

Wim Libaers · 09-16-06, 02:14 PM

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.

09-12-06, 01:33 PM	#1
Fish Eternal Patrol Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,923 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Copying from pdf file. Anyone knows it can be done, and how?

09-12-06, 01:37 PM	#2
The Avon Lady Über Mom Join Date: May 2005 Location: Jerusalem, Israel Posts: 6,147 Downloads: 5 Uploads: 0	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. __________________ "Victory will come to us from the wombs of our women." - Houari Boumedienne, President of Algeria, Speech before the UN, 1974

09-13-06, 09:26 AM	#5
TteFAboB Admiral Join Date: Oct 2004 Posts: 2,247 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	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"? __________________ "Tout ce qui est exagéré est insignifiant." ("All that is exaggerated is insignificant.") - Talleyrand

09-12-06, 02:00 PM	#3
Perilscope Sonar Guy Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Montréal Posts: 399 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	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.

09-13-06, 09:01 AM	#4
Fish Eternal Patrol Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Netherlands Posts: 1,923 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	Yeah right, all I could do was make a picture, not copying the text.

09-16-06, 02:14 PM	#6
Wim Libaers Samurai Navy Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Flanders Posts: 569 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	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.