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1. You can see if the PDF is locked for copying. From the File menu choose Properties and on the Security tab is says whether Content Copying is allowed. – Rob Sedgwick. Sep 9, 2015 at 19:40. Tried printing the PDF. The printed file does not allow to select text, it seems as it converted text to image. – queezz.
Basically, all it does is automatically replace all the unwanted line breaks with a single space, making all the text run together into a single paragraph: 1- copy the text you want from the PDF. 2- paste into a new Word document. 3- click “edit” then “replace”. 4- make sure you’re in the “find what” field.
1. You can achieve the desired result using pdftk and the multistamp command. First export the M$-Word document as PDF file as document.pdf and the signed file as document_signed.pdf. Then combine the two documents as follows: This creates a document_signed_searchable.pdf with exactly the features you want.
You can also make the Hand Tool behave as the Select Tool when you move over text by opening Edit -> Preferences -> General and checking the box in front of "Make Hand tool select text & images". Share. Improve this answer. answered Jun 21, 2010 at 17:05.
To copy and paste text from such PDF file, you should at first remove security, using a tool like QPDF ...
Some PDFs are protected so you can't copy the text. This link shows how to do it in Acrobat. Another possibility is that your "text" file is actually an image, i.e. it is created from a scan or a screendump. In that case it is still readable, but there is no text in it. If this is the case, a single click on the "text" in Acrobat will shade the ...
If you turn on the "Edit Text & Images" in the "Tools" panel in Adobe Acrobat, you should be able to select text inside highlighted region and right-click to do cut/copy/paste. I just tried on my laptop using Acrobat 11.0. Hope this can solve your problem. Not sure if Adobe Reader can do the same.
2. On your remote machine, append the text you want to a file: echo "here is my text" >> ~/clip.txt. Then on your local machine, open a terminal window and ssh into your remote machine. Then run: tail -f ~/clip.txt. The clipped text will show up in your terminal window whenever you append it to clip.txt remotely.
0. On Microsoft Windows, I use a voice command in Dragon NaturallySpeaking to paste text from the clipboard into input fields that block it copy-pasting: Sub Main. SendKeys Clipboard. Rem originalClipboard = Clipboard. Rem Clipboard("str(" & originalClipboard & ")") Rem SendKeys "originalClipboard".
Copy and paste doesn't work on pdf files. I have a windows 10 machine. When I try ctrl+a'ing, copying, and pasting an entire 400 page document, it HIGHLIGHTS everything, but when I copy , I notice that my cpu gives little effort and sure enough, when I paste, I figure out that it just decided to randomly take a small chunk off of a couple of pages.