How to cut and paste text from PDF to Word using Acrobat X or XI

Hi VIVIAN,

It’s possible that the PDF document does not have text that you can cut/paste. It may be a scanned image. If you have Acrobat and not just the free Reader you can run the Text Recognition tool to turn the image into text that you can copy/paste.

Thanks,
Lori

HOW TO COPY A TEXT IN ADOBE XI.I TRYED OPTION OF USING SELECT TOOL BUT DONT WORK

How to copy paste from pdf file to Ms word, 2007

Is there any software through which anyone can check whether the data has been copied from PDF or has been typed?

Hi Islam,

If the PDF has been copy-protected then you won’t be able to select and copy the text.

Thanks,
Lori

How to copy text from huge protected pdf document just read only , what should I do ?

Hello.
I have a problem. When I try to copy a multi-line text, I can paste only the first line. How can I solve this?
Thank you.

SAJAN P PHILIP - You are a Genius!! Big thanks (:

I used to be able to copy/past from pdf documents just fine, but in the last few months when I past into the receiving document (word file, my email, anything) it pastes the text but it removes all the spacing between words. I also think that this started happening the same time when I am selecting the text in pdf (pro) that the text becomes highlighted with green crescents (each letter & space gets a crescent where there is a flat facing left on the cresent)... I don’t remember this happening before.  I have to go back in and put words spacing in… quite a pain. HELP :)

Hi Edwin,

Thanks for letting us know you worked things out.

Lori

My apologies. I opened the main Word program and it asked me if I wanted to replace any more. I said no and was then able to do Save as and close the documents. So now I want to thank you for your kind help. However I have found that it is much easier to copy to Adobe Reader and save as a text file because the text is perfect when pasted, no unnecessary spaces or breaks in any of the words in the text.

Everything went fine until I wanted to press OK. Where is that option? No matter what I try to do (for example scrolling the text) the computer makes a noise and nothing happens. What I have is a document of which I can only see the last few lines and which I cannot close. It said press Esc to stop but that does not work. Have I done something wrong?

You might have faced difficulty in copy pasting from PDF to Word (MS Office 2007) while preparing Report and Your “Research Papers” :-P. Here I am providing an easy tutorial for doing that in an easier way. (This is my own experiment. Copy right protected :))

  Open a Blank New Document
  Copy and paste the content from PDF to Word document.
  Select the content and press “ALT+SHIFT+CTRL+S”
  A New window will be appeared on the left side. This is called “Styles” window.
  Select “Clear all” options from that.
  Now press “CTRL+F”.
  Select “Replace” in the newly opened window.
  Type “^p” in “Find What” area.
  Type a “SPACE” (Not the word Space) in the “Replace with” area.
  Click on “Replace All”
  Click “OK”.
  Clcik “Close”.
  You have done with that.
  “Happy Copy Pasting”

[Note: By seeing the number of steps, you may feel that it is difficult and I will go with the old “Delete Space” Method.
But if you try it once, you will see it very easy and useful. It is suitable for big document. Always do this formatting work in a new Blank document, otherwise it may affect the report which you are preparing]

If you find this easy and useful, don’t forget to say thanks to me.

How about paragraph marks when pasting multiple lines into a WP like MS Word?  Is there a way to suppres the paragraph marks from pasting with the text?

Tim,
I’ve found that this depends on the program your pasting the text into (i.e., Word 2003, 2007, etc). This is a good question to post in the Ask a Question section on our site.

Thanks,
Lori