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From: Jeff Needle on 26 Sep 2005 20:08 On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:13:39 -0700, PDFrank <pdfrank(a)some.com> wrote: > Jeff Needle wrote: > >> I'm a book reviewer. I received a book with a CD with the text of the >> book enclosed, with the files in PDF format. Great stuff, I don't >> have retype stuff I want to cite in the review. >> But Adobe won't let me copy text to the clipboard. I can highlight >> text, but that's it. Ctrl-c doesn't work. I'm guessing the creator >> of the CD set it up so that copying and pasting is not allowed. >> Is there a way around this? Maybe a freeware PDF reader that gets >> around the restriction? >> Thanks. >> > > Download the free Foxit PDF Editor. It doesn't seem to care if the PDF > is copy protected. Unless the program's been changed. Alas, I got a message that it does care -- that the document is protected. But I'm glad to have it anyway. It's really fast. Thanks. -- -------------------------------------- Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle(a)gmail.com
From: Jeff Needle on 26 Sep 2005 20:08 On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:47:42 -0700, Sweet Andy <me(a)privacy.net> wrote: > > "Jeff Needle" <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote in message > news:op.sxp5jbii3r2ov4(a)d9ns6561... >> I'm a book reviewer. I received a book with a CD with the text of the >> book enclosed, with the files in PDF format. Great stuff, I don't have >> retype stuff I want to cite in the review. >> >> But Adobe won't let me copy text to the clipboard. I can highlight >> text, >> but that's it. Ctrl-c doesn't work. I'm guessing the creator of the CD >> set it up so that copying and pasting is not allowed. >> >> Is there a way around this? Maybe a freeware PDF reader that gets >> around >> the restriction? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> -------------------------------------- >> Jeffrey Needle >> jeff.needle(a)gmail.com > > I use Adobe 6 and if you highlight and right click the txt you want to > copy, > you can select 'Copy to the clipboard' and the program will do it. Don't > believe any versions before 6 do it, though, so you may have to upgrade, > but > then Adobe Reader is free. > > I think finally Adobe realized how many people were pissed off at their > lack > of a copy function and fixed it. > > Enjoy > > I am using 6.0, but the options are grayed out. The creator of the CD has protected the text from being copied. -- -------------------------------------- Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle(a)gmail.com
From: nomail on 27 Sep 2005 01:29 On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:24:37 -0700, "Jeff Needle" <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote: >I'm a book reviewer. I received a book with a CD with the text of the >book enclosed, with the files in PDF format. Great stuff, I don't have >retype stuff I want to cite in the review. > >But Adobe won't let me copy text to the clipboard. I can highlight text, >but that's it. Ctrl-c doesn't work. I'm guessing the creator of the CD >set it up so that copying and pasting is not allowed. > >Is there a way around this? Maybe a freeware PDF reader that gets around >the restriction? > >Thanks. A bit messy, but you can do a screen copy and send the image file to an OCR program. GC
From: Jeff Needle on 27 Sep 2005 01:32 On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:29:01 -0700, <nomail(a)nomail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:24:37 -0700, "Jeff Needle" > <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote: > >> I'm a book reviewer. I received a book with a CD with the text of the >> book enclosed, with the files in PDF format. Great stuff, I don't have >> retype stuff I want to cite in the review. >> >> But Adobe won't let me copy text to the clipboard. I can highlight >> text, >> but that's it. Ctrl-c doesn't work. I'm guessing the creator of the CD >> set it up so that copying and pasting is not allowed. >> >> Is there a way around this? Maybe a freeware PDF reader that gets >> around >> the restriction? >> >> Thanks. > > A bit messy, but you can do a screen copy and send the image file > to an OCR program. > > GC Indeed. While searching the web for help, I found a weak but usable program that converts PDF files to plain text. It was a mess--missing characters, words running together, inability to convert more than one page at a time. I did have a bit of a genius moment -- why not open the PDF in a good word processor, and cut and paste it from there. I know some of them have PDF conversion. I use WordPerfect 12. It doesn't seem to have an ability to read a PDF file. I searched for a freeware word processor that would do it, but to no avail. Anyway, thanks for the thought. -- -------------------------------------- Jeffrey Needle jeff.needle(a)gmail.com
From: nomail on 27 Sep 2005 03:19
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:32:10 -0700, "Jeff Needle" <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote: >On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 22:29:01 -0700, <nomail(a)nomail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 12:24:37 -0700, "Jeff Needle" >> <jeff.needle(a)general-net.com> wrote: >> >>> I'm a book reviewer. I received a book with a CD with the text of the >>> book enclosed, with the files in PDF format. Great stuff, I don't have >>> retype stuff I want to cite in the review. >>> >>> But Adobe won't let me copy text to the clipboard. I can highlight >>> text, >>> but that's it. Ctrl-c doesn't work. I'm guessing the creator of the CD >>> set it up so that copying and pasting is not allowed. >>> >>> Is there a way around this? Maybe a freeware PDF reader that gets >>> around >>> the restriction? >>> >>> Thanks. >> >> A bit messy, but you can do a screen copy and send the image file >> to an OCR program. >> >> GC > > >Indeed. > >While searching the web for help, I found a weak but usable program that >converts PDF files to plain text. It was a mess--missing characters, >words running together, inability to convert more than one page at a time. > >I did have a bit of a genius moment -- why not open the PDF in a good word >processor, and cut and paste it from there. I know some of them have PDF >conversion. I use WordPerfect 12. It doesn't seem to have an ability to >read a PDF file. I searched for a freeware word processor that would do >it, but to no avail. > >Anyway, thanks for the thought. Another thought - Ghostscript / GSview will open pdf files and has a 'text extract' function. I suspect that it would not be too fussy over copy protection :-) GC |