On 9/15/05, Paul Smith <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Dear All > > 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 -- Leonard Isham, CISSP Ostendo non ostento.