Re: Copying text in Adobe Acrobat Reader

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I have a similar problem with PDFs from journal articles from before the
late 90s.  The PDFs were created from scanned images of the original printed
pages (sometimes a bit crooked or with a crease).  Whatever PDF creation
software was used (possibly the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat) has
some OCR so that you can copy the text.  Well, sometimes the OCR works
nicely, sometimes it doesn't work so well.

On 25/02/07 19:52 Earle Martin wrote:
> I have a PDF document. It is open in my browser via Acrobat Reader. I
> want to copy some text. So I clicked the "select tool", highlighted a
> paragraph, right-clicked, chose "Copy to Clipboard". Instead of a
> chunk of text about performance standards for safety glass in
> buildings, I got:
> 
> ([SHUWVZRUNLQJRQWKHXVHRIVDIHW\JODVVDQG...

• Copying text in Adobe Acrobat Reader Earle Martin 19:52 on 25 Feb 2007
  • Re: Copying text in Adobe Acrobat Reader Sean O'Rourke 20:08 on 25 Feb 2007
    • Darrell Fuhriman 02:53 on 27 Feb 2007
  • Robert Rothenberg 00:03 on 26 Feb 2007
  • Zach White 03:35 on 26 Feb 2007

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