Hi folks.
I'm using Adobe Acrobat Professional 7.0.9 and need to make copy of text line from pdf file. I used Select tool, highlighted the text, but realized the coursor highlighted a huge area, not the single line. And finally, when I copy I've got strange result:
SPMYM foPrT thOeM month of Jan. 08.
the expected text should be: PM for the month of Jan. 08. And SYMPTOM was the header of the box, where my desired line is located.
What I did wrong?
thank you in advance.
A PDF can be an image created from a scan (scanner or fax) or an image file, can be an image with hidden text (result of some OCR), text or a combination of the previous options.
If there is no text, hidden or visible, you will not be able to extract the text.
If you know how to open the JavaScript Debugger and run a script from the console, the followig sript will count the number of words in the PDF:
// count the number of words in a document
var cnt=0;
for (var p = 0; p < this.numPages; p++) {
cnt += getPageNumWords(p);
console.println("Page " + (p + 1) + " has " + getPageNumWords(p) + " words.");
} // end page loop
console.println("There are " + cnt + " words in this doc.");
George Kaiser