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I am using foxit PDF reader to view my text book. I would like to copy the text from the pdf file into a word document but it won't let me. I can select the text fine but the option to copy text is not available. I can copy text from other documents but not some. Is there a way to get around this protection in windows?
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The pdf file has probably been locked against copying text. Below are two ways to unlock it:
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I was able to create a DRM-free version of your PDF file using Ghostscript (which is available for Windows).
The resulting file Michael HamptonMichael Hampton
stripped.pdf can be loaded in Adobe Reader, and Reader will happily allow you to copy any part of it you wish. It also preserves most of the formatting of the table.
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I was able to copy the table from your PDF file successfully using Okular (for Linux; part of KDE). To do this, I had to go into Okular's settings and uncheck 'Obey DRM restrictions.'
I'm aware that this doesn't really help you much since you're running Windows, but it is a possibility if you have a Linux machine handy or are willing to install it.
Driverpack solution for windows 7 32 bit free download offline. Unfortunately it was plain text with no formatting, but it looks like it shouldn't be too hard to recreate the table. You can see the results of my copy and paste adventure here.
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You can use GT Textis a program that translate images(also pdf snapshots = image)to text.You can select the area and copies it to clipboardIt is free
The official home page is http://gttext.googlecode.com
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if copy is greyed out, as it now doubt is for you, then the PDF is 'locked', it can be read but is indeed stopping you from copy/pasting anything from it.
This website will unlock a PDF
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If you're just looking for short snippets, you can often type a few words into google inside quote marks and find the exact quote already scanned in some other format or typed by someone else.
Another option is 'Document from Photo' in the Google Docs Android app, which will put the text through OCR. This is error-prone, of course.
I wish PDF locking functionality never existed. :(
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Answer to endolith:
Your PDF is protected against copying, but is not protected against printing.
So I have printed the one page containing table 6.15 into another PDF that is not protectedagainst copying, selected and copied the table, then pasted it into Word.To my great surprise the result of the paste was utter rubbish.
I have now taken a further look at this table and found a very surprising result :This is not a table !
It is actually a montage of small pieces of text, positioned on the page so as to looklike a table. But this is not a real table.
The best you can do is either rewrite the whole thing as a table,or just use in your work a screenshot of this table-like assembled text.
Here is my screenshot of the table, as taken from my generated one-page pdf document :
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Another possibility is Evince.
In Windows, it seems to support copying by default.
In Linux, copying can be enabled by checking the endolith
override_restrictions setting if it isn't already, following these directions (dconf-editor → /org/gnome/evince → override_restrictions ).
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This managed to convert basic text. It stuggled with tables though.
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