The authors of this document have not given you permission to
select text. Please waste your time transcribing it instead.
Take a screen shot of each page, then run it through the OCR in
acrobat. A delicious irony...
Darrell
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 07:52:09PM +, Earle Martin wrote:
> I have a PDF document. It is open in my browser via Acrobat Reader. I
> want to copy some text. So I clicked the "select tool", highlighted a
> paragraph, right-clicked, chose "Copy to Clipboard". Instead of a
> chunk of text about per
I have a similar problem with PDFs from journal articles from before the
late 90s. The PDFs were created from scanned images of the original printed
pages (sometimes a bit crooked or with a crease). Whatever PDF creation
software was used (possibly the commercial version of Adobe Acrobat) has
som
"Earle Martin" writes:
> Instead of a chunk of text about performance standards for
> safety glass in buildings, I got:
> [control characters]
Dude, your digital rights have *so* been managed:
The authors of this document have not given you permission to
select text. Please waste your
I have a PDF document. It is open in my browser via Acrobat Reader. I
want to copy some text. So I clicked the "select tool", highlighted a
paragraph, right-clicked, chose "Copy to Clipboard". Instead of a
chunk of text about performance standards for safety glass in
buildings, I got:
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