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peter_poulsen
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 7:07 am Post subject: Copying text from a PDF [SOLVED] |
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I have a PDF where I would like to quote the author, but when I mark the text "Funtions" in acroread, hits C+c and insert it here:
Not pretty, right? The same happens if I try to copy it to emacs. Is there no way I can copy text from a PDF document?
/Peter
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ecosta
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It actually works fine for me using KPDF.
It's the best PDF reader I've used yet.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:42 am Post subject: |
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| I have just emerged it. It seems like it tries to copy to an image?? (I can select jpg or png) |
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The selection of text is a little odd because it doesn't follow "text lines" but if you select text with it and paste it in a text editor it will work fine... I tested it before answering you to make sure 
Hope it works out for you.
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peter_poulsen
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I still cannot get it to work, but I tried it with a different .pdf file and there it works. Apparently it is just the .pdf that I need copy from that causes the problem  |
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| peter_poulsen wrote: | | I still cannot get it to work, but I tried it with a different .pdf file and there it works. Apparently it is just the .pdf that I need copy from that causes the problem |
I've had a similar problem a few days ago. Text selection and searching in the pdf wasn't possible. Google seems to be able to cope with broken pdfs better - using scholar.google.com I was able to locate the paper and search within it using the "View as HTML" option.
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I managed to persuade the author to send me the .tex file  |
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