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Save as text only saves portion of pdf

NickyK
Registered: May 12 2009
Posts: 2

I have an online newspaper subscription that delivers the daily paper in pdf format.
I convert the newspaper to text and then perform an automated processing of the resultant file.
Recently when I "save as text" only a certain section of the pdf is converted. I can't tell what is causing this.
Is there something internally that is preventing me from saving the entire document as text? I can select and paste the desired text into a text document so it seems like the permissions are there. If I removed the permissions password would I regain the ability to save the entire document?

Here is a list of the document properties for the file:
Doc Restrictions:
Printing: allowed
Doc Assemlby: not allowed
Content copying: allowed
content copying for accessibility: allowed
page extraction, commenitng, filling of form fields, signing, creation of template pages : not allowed.

Document Security:
Doc Open Password : No
Permissions Password: Yes
Printing : High Res
Changing Document, Commenting, Form Field Fill-in/Signing, Document Assembly : Not allowed
Content Copying : allowed
Content Accessibility Enabled : allowed
Page Extraction: not allowed
Encryption: 128bit RC4

It is not a tagged pdf.
The PDF Producer is listed as CVISION Technologies
PDF Version: 1.6 (Acrobat 7.x)

I'm viewing it using Acro Reader 9 on Linux, however I've tested it on Windows with the same results of only partial text extraction.

The same document properties are found on an older file that converts the entire document.

romanzakharin
Registered: Sep 18 2007
Posts: 1
Did you ever get an answer to this?