Copy and Paste from one PDF to another

for sure, this is an annoying behavior. it seems that there is not any documentation from adobe on how to address it and the absence of replys from the usual helpers on the forum indicates that you've stumped them. perhaps this suggestion will be of use. given that you are a 'new user', you may find this a little perplexing and we may have go thru a few iterations. Here goes: apply OCR to the page where you want to copy the text boxes (this assumes there is image text on the page) and then copy the text boxes. Alternative: apply OCR to the page from which you copy the text boxes (this assumes there is not renderable text on the page) and then copy the text boxes. Let me know how you do.

this behavior occurs when one file (or page) is a scanned image and the other file (or page) is renderable pdf created with an authoring app or with the 'create pdf from blank page' tool. the intuitive approach of simply pasting the text box to a rotated page can not resolve the behavior. Use of the OCR tool, as recommended above, resolves the behavior because the tool evidently resets the matrix of the scanned image. This can be demostrated on a scanned image that is OCR'd and where the resultant hidden text AND the original image are both subsquently removed, thereby leaving a blank page that has a properly oriented matrix -- a page with a matrix that will receive a pasted text box in the proper orientation.

ACKDogMan,
Just some nattering on my part.

If, by "text boxes", you are refering to annotations created with the Text Box tool, then what you describe is indicative of the source and target PDF files that have different page orientations.

Annotations (Text Box, Text Field, an Arrow, etc.), when created will have a default orientation of 0 degrees. That is, the annotation's "up" or "top" is aligned relative to the PDF file's "top".
So, to copy-paste from a PDF with landscape orientation to a PDF with portrait orientation (or vice versa) results in the appearent rotation of the annotation. Relative to the target PDF's page orientation the annotation's rotation is real. However, the annotation (Text Box, etc.) settings reflect its orientation to "up" in the source PDF file which had a different orientation.

While a Text Field's orientation can be edited , a Text Box orientation is not an editable choice in the Text Box Properties dialog window. While you can alter the bounding "box" of the text, the text itself retains its "up/top" orientation relative to the source PDF.

If this is the issue then you may want to consider a "re-do" of the source PDF Text Boxes onto a PDF file having the same page orientation as the target PDF file.

Be well...

I have a problem with pdf-files from a new scanner I use (Lexmark 642e). The pdf-files the scanner produces are only to be copied as picture, not as text. I need to copy the text for use in another application. Can someone tell me what's going on and how I can correct this?

Can you please re-post your question on a new thread?

Thanks.