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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.
Oct 11, 2010 · 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.
0. this might be old but characters encoding issues in compound path pdf are still an issue today I solved by. open unsearchable text file with illustrator. Save a Copy as pdf with preset Smallest File Size. then open file with acrobat. Scan & OCR > Recognize Text with your settings. now search ⌘ + f should work.
However running that same original PDF through Adobe Acrobat Pro's Document > Reduce File Size function, the resulting compressed PDF can successfully copy and paste text. So, this is not totally helpful in your case, presuming that your PDF file was received from elsewhere and you can't get to the original version, if it was indeed compressed in some way.
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 ...
Feb 5, 2023 · I used to be able to print or save various sources (Word, Gmail, web pages) to PDFs with "normal" text. This is no longer possible. Instead, all text is being treated as objects. It may or may not be related to the problem, but around the same time that "normal" text was disabled, the cursor changed from a vertical bar to a hand.
Jun 19, 2023 · 1. If this pdf is not an image, use pdftotext command. It is built-in utility in Ubuntu. If the pdf is an image file, you need to convert it to jpg and then recognize it with tesseract. convert-im6.q16 -density 300 yourfile.pdf yourfile.jpg. tesseract -l en youfile.pdf.
Dec 17, 2014 · If the PDF is not copy protected then the problem you are facing is due to a bug in the Chrome PDF reader. The solution is to first left click anywhere on the page of the PDF with the mouse before selecting text or pressing CTRL + A and CTRL + C to copy the text. Share. Improve this answer. answered Jun 10, 2020 at 9:55.
Jan 7, 2010 · The most likely answer is that the text in the PDF document does not contain the right characters. What you see isn't necessarily what you get with PDF, the text that you copy from and the image that you see are two different things, and in many cases that text is just an OCR reading of the image, which probably doesn't recognize the non-latin ...
Sep 5, 2022 · I tried to open it with google docs, and tried the site i2orc to convert the file. But in both cases the Chinese characters are missing from the output, just as when i copy/paste them from the original file. Yes, i can copy them from the original file, but not totally.
