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». > > The exact process depends on what you ahve available. Except for > servers I'm stuck in Windows and use a PDF Printdriver to print > anything to a PDF. Thanks, Leonard. I have just checked: the pdf file is not copy protected, but, even so, what I can copy into a word processor is garbage. It may be something relating with encodings. Paul
