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Can copy text from a .pdf
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I downloaded a .pdf eBook and for some reason I can't select and copy text from it.
Is it possible that it is locked for copyright reasons?
Is there anyway around this? I want to quote lengthy passages from the text. Do I have to type it out manually from the .pdf? This seems ridiculous. The only reason I got the .pdf instead of the book was so I could copy/paste text.
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Wait a minute. Is just got weird.
I CAN copy/paste text from the .pdf, but when I select text, it is not highlighted blue as usual. It looks like nothing has been selected. But if I press control/c and then -- in word doc -- control/v, the text magically appears anyway.
Why isn't the selected text being highlighted?
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Administrator  Join Date: Apr 2001
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Aren't eBooks supposed to have some sort of protection to keep you from "pirating" the text? I'll bet this is simply one of the Acrobat settings-"don't show selected text highlight" or something like that. At least you can copy it for your quotation purposes, even if it's not as simple as you'd like because it's hard to tell what you've selected...
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Glenn -----
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Incidentally, when I'm really desparate, I work around Adobe E-book copy protection by taking a bunch of automated screenshots of the pages, then using Acrobat Pro (Oh the irony!) to OCR the text. It isn't flawless, but it beats having a book in a proprietary DRMd format.
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Originally Posted by Mithras
Incidentally, when I'm really desparate, I work around Adobe E-book copy protection by taking a bunch of automated screenshots of the pages, then using Acrobat Pro (Oh the irony!) to OCR the text. It isn't flawless, but it beats having a book in a proprietary DRMd format.
OCR the text?
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Originally Posted by Ulrich Kinbote
OCR the text?
Optical Character Recognition (OCR). Get the OCR software to work on the screenshot pages, it should convert it into a text format for easy editing.
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