On 9/15/05, Leonard Isham <leonard.isham@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I have got a pdf file, whose text I would like to copy to a word > > processor. However, it seems to be protected, as when I copy and paste > > a piece of text from there into a word processor, I only see garbage. > > Is there some way of getting clean text from the pdf file? > > Try "printing" it to another unprotected PDF file and do the copy and > paste from there. YMMV Thanks, Leonard. Do you mean that I should try to print to a ps file and then converting the output to a pdf file? I do not quite understand what you mean by «Try "printing" it to another unprotected PDF». Paul
