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chris kennedy
07-04-2009, 05:15 PM
I can't figure this out. I have a PDF I know you can copy and paste, but you can't highlight anything with that hand.

Thank you.
Hunter J
07-04-2009, 05:17 PM
Can you post it?
iwire
07-04-2009, 05:18 PM
I can't figure this out. I have a PDF I know you can copy and paste, but you can't highlight anything with that hand.

Thank you.

Right click while 'in' the pdf, click on the "Select Tool" instead of the "Hand Tool".
Hunter J
07-04-2009, 05:22 PM
Or the | Select button. It is located right next to my hand button. I was able to high light the text I want and paste it into a word document.

Hope this Helps.
chris kennedy
07-04-2009, 05:31 PM
Right click while 'in' the pdf, click on the "Select Tool" instead of the "Hand Tool".

Cake, thank you sir.
chris kennedy
07-04-2009, 05:35 PM
Can you post it?

Check your PM's

Or the | Select button. It is located right next to my hand button. I was able to high light the text I want and paste it into a word document.

Hope this Helps.

Yes sir, that works also, thanks again.
weressl
07-06-2009, 01:44 AM
Cake, thank you sir.

Just a note:

When the text of scanned documents are not converted with OCR(Optical Character Recognition) the graphic object tool - little camera icon - would work instead of the text selector. That may be more difficult to paste, dependent on your software target.
chris kennedy
07-06-2009, 06:52 AM
Thank you Laszlo.
brantmacga
07-06-2009, 04:58 PM
looks like you got it working, but for future reference, the copy-&-paste feature can be locked when creating .pdf's, meaning the end-user cannot copy the content.
chris kennedy
08-28-2009, 06:31 PM
Right click while 'in' the pdf, click on the "Select Tool" instead of the "Hand Tool".

Not an option on this PDF

Or the | Select button. It is located right next to my hand button. I was able to high light the text I want and paste it into a word document.

Hope this Helps.

Not an option on this PDF.

looks like you got it working, but for future reference, the copy-&-paste feature can be locked when creating .pdf's, meaning the end-user cannot copy the content.

Looks like the case, am I dead in the water here? Do have have to type the whole quote out? I'm not in the mood.
480sparky
08-28-2009, 06:37 PM
Email it to me. Maybe I can do something with it.
weressl
08-28-2009, 06:39 PM
Not an option on this PDF



Not an option on this PDF.



Looks like the case, am I dead in the water here? Do have have to type the whole quote out? I'm not in the mood.

Under "Document" you can try Optimize PDF or OCR Text.
chris kennedy
08-28-2009, 06:45 PM
Email it to me. Maybe I can do something with it.

See PM, I sent it to you a while back.


Under "Document" you can try Optimize PDF or OCR Text.

Thanks Laszlo, I tried and don't see that option.
480sparky
08-28-2009, 06:49 PM
See PM, I sent it to you a while back.

It's long been deleted.
JWCELECTRIC
08-29-2009, 10:58 AM
Chris,

Are you using the free download version, or full seat version. The full version gives you more options to copy/cut/paste etc. and make edits to documents
Pierre C Belarge
08-29-2009, 11:13 AM
If you are using a "locked" PDF, the only way to Copy&Paste is to have a computer-geek friend unlock it for you.
brantmacga
08-30-2009, 01:46 AM
Not an option on this PDF



Not an option on this PDF.



Looks like the case, am I dead in the water here? Do have have to type the whole quote out? I'm not in the mood.


print, then re-scan and output to adobe using OCR.
Smart $
08-30-2009, 05:04 AM
Chris,

Are you using the free download version, or full seat version. The full version gives you more options to copy/cut/paste etc. and make edits to documents

If you are using a "locked" PDF, the only way to Copy&Paste is to have a computer-geek friend unlock it for you.

Depends on the Document Restrictions. File>Properties... Security tab.

If printing is allowed, see below.

print, then re-scan and output to adobe using OCR.
I have yet to run across an OCR output that doesn't require at least some manual editing for correction.

A better option, if printing is allowed, is to print to a virtual printer, such as most any "print to PDF" printer, including Adobe's. I have two such options installed on my computer. Copy restrictions do not make it through the print process. Another is the Microsoft XPS Document Writer. I have embedded an example "printed" file in the attached Word file. If you don't have either the viewer or writer... http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/xps/viewxps.mspx

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