On Thursday 15 September 2005 14:09, Paul Smith 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? If the other thing sthat were posted on this list don't work try pdf2html - it should give you a nice html output. Last time I checked it ignored the protect flag. Peter.