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I have an Adobe Acrobat file (.pdf) that is primary all text. However, when I tried to edit and/or copy sections I discovered the text is really composed as an object and I have to use the graphics tool to copy. I really want to copy as text. Is there a way to convert object to text?

David Baird
mrbaird@hotmail.com
 
Sr Controls Engineer

EET degree.

Journeyman Electrician.

RE: Picture

I think you need the full version of Acrobat to have that option. Or some scanners will let you scan the document as text into MS Word.

RE: Picture

I don't know about your document, but I think some .pdf docs are set up different from others, in part depending on the source document.

At the simplest level, the text select button in the Adobe Reader toolbar works to select and copy text to the clipboard.  I think this works for newer documents.

I've also seen docs where text could not be selected.  These were "raster scans" of hard copy (old 1970s government manuals, etc.) then dumped into a .pdf

I've also seen a .pdf form that could actually be edited by entering text into the appropriate spots on the form.


RE: Picture

If the document was created from Word or another word processing program using Adobe, then the text will be editable.  If the document was scanned into Adobe and saved as a pdf, then it is a picture, not text, and not editable.  OCR is your only option (Optical Character Recognition).

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