Copy From Adobe To Word

• Thanks for the idea Bill, but it does not work. Even if i change the font in Word it will be still strange symbols. By the way if i save the PDF as a Word file I just get a lot of pages full of symbols, as you can see in the attach.
• Apr 01, 2018  Select the text you want to copy by holding down the left mouse button and dragging across the text. Press and hold the Ctrl key and the C key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and select Copy in the drop-down menu. Open a word processor or text editing program.
• You cannot save a pdf file from Reader to Word. You can sometimes copy and paste. Acrobat has a more sophisticated filter to convert a pdf file, but the quality varies depending upon the content of the pdf file and how it was originally created.
• Aug 21, 2011  Thanks for the idea Bill, but it does not work. Even if i change the font in Word it will be still strange symbols. By the way if i save the PDF as a Word file I just get a lot of pages full of symbols, as you can see in the attach.

1. Copy Table From Adobe To Word
2. Changing Adobe To Word

Right-click the document, and choose Select Tool from the pop-up menu. Drag to select text, or click to select an image. Right-click the selected item, and choose Copy. Copy an entire PDF (Windows Reader DC application only, not browser).

When I copy text out of a PDF file and into a text editor, it ends up mangled in a variety of ways. Formatting like bold and italics are lost; soft line breaks within a paragraph of text are converted to hard line breaks; dashes to break a word over two lines are preserved even when they shouldn't be; and single and double quotes are replaced with ? signs.

Ideally, I'd like to be able to copy text from a PDF and have formatting converted to HTML codes, 'smart quotes' converted to ' and ', and line breaks done properly. Is there any way to do this?

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Firstly, you have to understand what a PDF is. PDFs are designed to mimic a printed page, and they are designed only as an output format, not an input format. a PDF is basically a map containing the exact location of characters (individual letters or punctuation, etc.) or images. In most cases, a PDF does not even store information about where one word ends and another begins, much less things like soft breaks vs. hard breaks for paragraph endings.

(A few recent PDFs do store some information about this stuff, but that's a new technology, and you'd be lucky to find PDFs like that. Even if you did, your PDF viewer might not know about it.)

Anyway, it's up to your software to implement some kind of 'artificial intelligence' to extract merely from the locations of individual characters what is a word, what is a paragraph, and so on. Different software is going to do this better than others, and it's also going to depend on how the PDF was made. In any case, you should never expect perfect results. Having the output PDF is not the same as having the source document. Far better to try to obtain that if you can.

The standard solution to your kind of problem is to use Adobe Acrobat Professional (the expensive one, not the free reader) to convert the PDF to HTML. Even that is not going to get perfect results.

There is free software that can be used to extract text from PDFs with some of formatting intact, but again, don't expect perfect results. See, e.g., calibre (which can convert to RTF format), pdftohtml/pdfreflow or the AbiWord word processor (with all import/export plugins enabled). There's also a PDF import plugin for OpenOffice.

But please don't expect perfection with any of these results. You're going against the grain here. PDF just is not meant as an editable input format.

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Another option is to download and start using the free pdf viewer, Foxit (its good).Then you can 'Save As' and choose .txt to convert it to a text file.That will preserve all the formatting. Dunno whether you can do the same in Adobe because I stopped using it a while ago when I converted to Foxit.

There is a very good online tool called Sej-da. Its deals with Advanced PDF Manipulation. There is no software to download. As it is a new online tool it is currently still in Beta. It allows you to extract text from a PDF, as well as providing a myriad of other PDF functionalities

A brief video review of sejda functions was done 14th November 2012 by Revision 3 it can be found here:

SimonSimon

Open your PDF file with a browser(Google chrome and firefox are tested)then copy your text there.

You can use Adobe Acrobat Pro for this.

For tables: With Acrobat 9/10 there was a select tables feature. With Acrobat X you can just click Save As > Spreadsheet > Excel. It even concatenates pages into one long spreadsheets. Awesome feature.

For text: A similar feature exists for exporting to MS Word. Save As > Word > Word Doc.

Sources:

• I just did it and it worked like a charm.

Foxit will toggle between displaying the original file as normal PDF or as text by pressing Ctrl + 6 (With a little fiddling with the zoom level of the text mode there's not much jump in position back and forth between reading and copying)

I found this very useful ( Remove Line Breaks ):

Here is a useful trick to quickly resolve this without having to remove all the line breaks manually. Basically, all it does is automatically replace all the unwanted line breaks with a single space, making all the text run together into a single paragraph:

1- copy the text you want from the PDF.

2- paste into a new Word document.

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3- click “edit” then “replace”

4- make sure you’re in the “find what” field

5- click “more” then “special”

6- select “paragraph mark” (top of the list)

7- click into the “replace with” field

8- press the space bar once

9- click “replace all”

10- click “ok” then close the “find & replace” box.

You could copy from adobe reader into MS Excel and format (table) the way you want and then copy and paste from Excel. This solution works great. You don't need to buy expensive adobe professional copy.

Dave M

I was trying to save the the text and format of a pdf that was organized in a table. In Acrobat Professional, I realized there is a 'Save As' option that allows saving as an excel document. This worked well for my needs. I also noticed there is a Save As Word document option as well. I didn't try it though.

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From time to time, users need to copy text from an Adobe PDF. The following sections contain step by step instructions on how to do so based on the program you're using and its version. Naruto shippuden episode 273 dubbed. To proceed, select the link that applies to you from the below list.

Warning

Not all browsers and online readers support copying text from a PDF. Most of the time, you'll only be able to select certain portions of the PDF or none at all. We suggest downloading the file and opening it in the Adobe Reader program for best results.

Online PDF reader

1. Open the PDF in your online reader or Internet browser by clicking the link to the file.
2. Select the text you want to copy by holding down the left mouse button and dragging across the text. Again, this may not work in many online programs.
3. Press and hold the Ctrl key and the C key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and select Copy in the drop-down menu.
4. Open a word processor or text editing program.
5. Paste the copied text into a word processor or text editor by pressing and holding the Ctrl key and the V key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and selecting Paste in the drop-down menu that appears.

Copying text in Adobe Reader DC

Note

Before trying the steps below, look at the top title bar. If the document says (SECURED), as shown in the picture to the right, the PDF file is copy protected and will prevent you from copying the text using the steps below. See our copying text from a secured PDF section for steps on how to bypass the PDF security.

1. Open the PDF in your online reader or Internet browser by clicking the link to the file.
2. Select the text you want to copy by holding down the left mouse button and dragging across the text. Again, this may not work in many online programs.
3. Press and hold the Ctrl key and the C key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and select Copy in the drop-down menu.
4. Open a word processor or text editing program.
5. Paste the copied text into a word processor or other text editor by pressing and holding the Ctrl key and the V key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and selecting Paste in the drop-down menu that appears.

Adobe Reader X or later

1. If you've opened the PDF in your Internet browser, hover your mouse cursor over the open document to look for an option to download it.
2. Once you've downloaded the file, open it in Adobe Reader.
3. In the opened PDF document, right-click with your mouse and select the Select Tool option in the pop-up menu (it has a check mark to the left of the option when selected).

4. Select the text you want to copy by holding down the left mouse button and dragging across the text.
5. Press and hold the Ctrl key and the C key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and select Copy in the drop-down menu.
6. Open a word processor or text editing program.
7. Paste the copied text into a word processor or other text editor by pressing and holding the Ctrl key and the V key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and selecting Paste in the drop-down menu that appears.

Note

If you cannot highlight any text from a PDF document using the steps above, it likely has copy protection or all its text is an image. Only professional (paid) versions of PDF programs can remedy this issue.

Adobe Reader 9 or earlier

Copy Table From Adobe To Word

1. If you've opened the PDF in your Internet browser, hover your mouse cursor over the open document to look for an option to download it.
2. Once you've downloaded the file, open it in Adobe Reader.
3. In the PDF document, click the Select tool in the toolbar, as seen in the following image.

4. Once this option is chosen, highlight the text you want to copy and click Edit and then Copy. You may also right-click the highlighted text and click Copy or Copy to clipboard.
5. Paste the copied text into a word processor or other text editor by pressing and holding the Ctrl key and the V key on your keyboard. You can also right-click with your mouse and selecting Paste in the drop-down menu that appears.

Note

Changing Adobe To Word

If you cannot highlight any text from a PDF document using the steps above, it likely has copy protection or all its text is an image. Only professional (paid) versions of PDF programs can remedy this issue.

Copying text from a secured PDF

A PDF file is often secured to prevent you from copying the content because the author or company who produced the PDF is protecting their Copyright. If you're attempting to copy text from a PDF for commercial use, you must obtain explicit permission from the Copyright holder. If you need to copy text for personal use, or for accessibility reasons, the following steps can help you copy edit-restricted text.

For a PDF, it is possible to add the following types of document restrictions.

• Printing: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Document Assembly: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Content Copying: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Content Copying for Accessibility: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Page Extraction: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Commenting: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Filling of form fields: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Signing: Allowed or Not Allowed
• Creation of Template Pages: Allowed or Not Allowed

Tip

To view a PDF's security properties in Adobe Reader, click File, Properties, and then click on the Security tab.

To bypass or reset the PDF security settings, we will be using Google Chrome to print the PDF as a new PDF, which will not have any of the original PDF security settings.

1. Open Google Chrome. If Google Chrome is not installed on your computer, you can follow our how to install Google Chrome steps.
2. Drag the PDF file you want to convert to Chrome, which should open the PDF in Chrome. If the PDF is trying to open as a download and not in Chrome, see our steps on how to open a PDF in Chrome instead of as a download.
3. Once the PDF is open in Chrome, click the printer icon or use the Ctrl+P keyboard shortcut.
4. In the print window, click the Change button and change the Destination to 'Save as PDF.'
5. Click the Save button.
6. Once the file is saved, open the PDF in Adobe Reader or any other PDF reader, and you should be able to copy and paste the text following any of the steps mentioned above on this page.

Additional information

• See our PDF definition for further information and related links.