Copying text from adobe Acrobat Reader

I have several documents that are in .pdf format for Adboe Acrobat Reader.

Apparently, somehow the security parameter was set to "NOT ALLOWED" to copy
or extract text from these documents.

Is there a way that I can copy or extract text? I am using Adobe Acrobat
Reader 5.0 for WindowsXP. Must I buy a more expensive version of Adobe
Acrobat?

Thank you.

 

In

I believe so
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobatstd/main.html?c=us

at only $299 ---- costs over here £ 287 t----wice as much as you pay in
Hernia
Mind you someone else may come up with a better ( Cheaper ) idea

 

fkissam composed the following ...

Unless you know the password ...

Maybe try a screen grab then an OCR ..

 

On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 16:26:23 -0500, fkissam wrote:

Your are not getting an email reply, Followup-To: poster

Apparently, somehow the ownder of the document clicked a couple of the
security items before saving the document.

That's what the security settings are for.

Ask the document owner/creator.

You can't copy using Acrobat Reader, so buying the full Acrobat helps
how? If the document author set a security feature password you won't be
able to make any changes.

See the many previous posts in 24HSHD asking about PDF utilities,
sometimes a 3rd party app will allow changes.

Me

 

This DOES work (up to a point).

Expand the pdf page as much as you can without the text you want to
extract actually going off-screen. Hit the 'print screen' button.

Now open an imaging program. Let's assume you use Microsoft Photo Editor
(which works as well as any). Click on 'Edit' on the top menu bar, then
'Paste as new image'. This will display the what the screen displayed.
If possible, crop the image to show only the text which you want to see.

Next, it is probably beneficial to sharpen the text image as much as you
dare without overdoing it ('Effects', 'Sharpen'). Also, it may help if
you increase the contrast.

Now click on 'File', then 'Save as' but, before you save the file as a
JPG, click on 'More>>' (bottom right). Ensure that you don't skimp on
the 'JPEG Quality Factor' setting (I suggest you set to max).

With luck, you now have a half-decent and fairly sharp image of the
text. There is a good chance that an OCR program (one which can input a
JPG file rather than having to do as scan) will do a fair job in
recognising the text.

Ian.
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