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casey.o
I got a PDF file for some personal business I am dealing with. It's all
text (no pictures). I need to respond to portions of this file by
email, and want to copy portions of the text to the email, so I dont
have to type all of the stuff by hand. (It's 17 pages long). I have
been trying for 3 days to figure out how to copy the text in the PDF to
my email or to Notepad.
Ideally, I'd like to copy the entire PDF to a text file, so I can apply
my comments using Wordpad or even Notepad, and then email the final
results. Out of those 17 pages, there are at least 10 pages that need
to be commented on.....
I've tried, Foxit reader, PDF-Exchange, Sumantra, and Adobe Reader
(Acrobat). I began doing this in Win98, but copied the PDF to my XP
machine so I could install a newer version of Adobe Reader. I've tried
damn near everything. All I can get is either a blank .txt file, or one
one occasion, I got the FIRST PAGE copied but could not get any further
ones copied. I CAN copy them to a picture file (such as .JPG), but that
wont work.
I read some stuff about this on the web, and it appears taht some PDF
files are "locked" to prevent modifying them or extracting text from
them. I'm beginning to think this one may be locked. (except that I
did copy that first page????).
Can anyone give me some help with this, please!!!
Thanks
BTW: PDF-Exchange has an option to "export to text", but it's only in
the registered (paid) version. I have the free one.
text (no pictures). I need to respond to portions of this file by
email, and want to copy portions of the text to the email, so I dont
have to type all of the stuff by hand. (It's 17 pages long). I have
been trying for 3 days to figure out how to copy the text in the PDF to
my email or to Notepad.
Ideally, I'd like to copy the entire PDF to a text file, so I can apply
my comments using Wordpad or even Notepad, and then email the final
results. Out of those 17 pages, there are at least 10 pages that need
to be commented on.....
I've tried, Foxit reader, PDF-Exchange, Sumantra, and Adobe Reader
(Acrobat). I began doing this in Win98, but copied the PDF to my XP
machine so I could install a newer version of Adobe Reader. I've tried
damn near everything. All I can get is either a blank .txt file, or one
one occasion, I got the FIRST PAGE copied but could not get any further
ones copied. I CAN copy them to a picture file (such as .JPG), but that
wont work.
I read some stuff about this on the web, and it appears taht some PDF
files are "locked" to prevent modifying them or extracting text from
them. I'm beginning to think this one may be locked. (except that I
did copy that first page????).
Can anyone give me some help with this, please!!!
Thanks
BTW: PDF-Exchange has an option to "export to text", but it's only in
the registered (paid) version. I have the free one.