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Copy/Paste from PDF to Excel maintaining hyperlinks

Knawl
Registered: Jun 5 2009
Posts: 3

I am using Adobe Reader 8 on a Win2000 machine and trying to copy/paste from reader to excel whilst keeping the hyperlinks.

Is this possible? Thank you.

My Product Information:
Reader 8.0, Windows
daka630
Expert
Registered: Mar 1 2007
Posts: 1420
Quote:
...copy/paste from reader to excel whilst keeping the hyperlinks. Is this possible?
Not possible.
A copy/paste grabs the PDF page content (i.e., the text).
Hypertext links, like annotations are different objects that are not part of the page itself.
Any annotation, link or otherwise, is associated with a geometirc region of the PDF page and not
with any particular object (i.e., text string on the page) in the page's content stream.

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