I saved a PDF file to my desktop. I want to copy and paste some of the text from that file into a regular text file. Is there anyway to copy from a PDF file?
2006-07-08 13:17:27 · 5 answers · asked by tisherself2004 3 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
YES!!!
Get the FREE, Open Source Software (FOSS)!!!
Open Office, Abiword, (there are other FOSS solutions!) both do the job!
http://openoffice.org
http://sourceforge.net
2006-07-08 13:23:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good answer, Linuxiac. I opened a prompt, and verified that my Mandriva system has a command called pdftotext. I don't have enough experience with the Live CD's to know which one would let you boot a live CD, and without touching your HD for an install, let you access the pdf file, and make the change, then save it again.
A reminder that OpenOffice.org is available for Windows, you need not install Linux to use it. I didn''t remember it would make the pdf to text, but it is Microsoft Office compatible, except for the most complex macros not used by most people.
2006-07-08 14:22:29 · answer #2 · answered by retiredslashescaped1 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's strange but true, that in version 7 of Adobe Reader and some earlier versions, if you click on the file menu and chose "Save as text" the text will be extracted from the file and saved as a text file. No copying or pasting needed.
2006-07-08 13:47:34 · answer #3 · answered by socrtwo 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If the PDF is not protected, then you can go to Edit and Select All and it would copy the content.
That is if it was converted from any file to PDF.
If it is a scanned PDF, you need a OCR program that will convert the file into text.
Hope it helps.
2006-07-08 13:23:34 · answer #4 · answered by IO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
control a
control c
then control v into a word document
2006-07-08 13:21:35 · answer #5 · answered by Bill 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋