I have one component - extractor. Could anybody help me??? Improve this question. Kurt Pfeifle Sometimes, you simply cannot get the text out without resorting to OCR optical character recognition. This sounds like one of them. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Very often in such cases, where you can't select, copy'n'paste text from the Acrobat Reader window, there is another option which may work nevertheless: Open 'File' menu, select 'Save as Update You can use the pdffonts command line utility to get a quick-shot analysis of the fonts used by a PDF.
Both fonts are of type TrueType. Both fonts use a WinAnsi encoding a font encoding maps char identifiers used in the PDF source code to glyphs that should be drawn. Improve this answer. Kurt Pfeifle Kurt Pfeifle I was wondering how to create a pdf file with perfect text view but gibberish copy-paste text? Rowan Rowan 2, 2 2 gold badges 21 21 silver badges 22 22 bronze badges.
Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Michel de Ruiter Michel de Ruiter 5, 5 5 gold badges 44 44 silver badges 64 64 bronze badges. I don't see a link. RadLexus He didn't provide a document did he? I had the same problem and it helped me.
No reason to downvote IMHO. Michel as he didn't provide a document , how could you claim that Chrome does copy normal readable characters?
I didn't down vote. But in combination with your comment I really consider to. I wish I had a public example PDF to prove this works at least for some documents. I can confirm that it works, I cant paste the text here as the documents are confidential but we had jibberish when trying copy paste from Adobe Reader and standard text when using Chrome's Native PDF viewer. Show 2 more comments. Eapen Eapen Sign up to join this community.
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Asked 11 years, 8 months ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed k times. I'm trying to copy and paste text from a PDF file. Improve this question. Try some screen reader utilities which works with jpeg, do a print screen and there you go or here is a different way.
Just a 'guess', don't bite me for it. I used the first way back then. Hope there are more convenient ways. Similar question: superuser. I can also confirm this problem with OS X, at least as of I've spent a bit of time going through the PDF file structure, but unfortunately I can't see any way to repair the damage.
I've raised a bug report with Apple - ID Mught be helpful superuser. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Indeed, custom font encoding was the culprit for me. However, Chrome wasn't the solution. Any character groups to which LaTeX applies ligatures e. Same problem with chrome — JinSnow. Gavin Miller. I got a few pdf files from a mac os user. Try a bunch of pdf to word converters, including googledoc, adobe save as text, all of them gives garbled text.
Anyone out there aware of any means to "undo" such operation? I printed the pdf file to a several virtual printer, and I got inflated 4x size pdf files. The printed file apparent is image, no text selection can be made, while the original can be selected garbled though.
There is another very easy way to make a workaround : Just print the document using CutePdf, Adobe 2 Pdf printer or any similar stuff. In many cases it will easily remove the problem. Nick Olszanski. Comments: Using highest resolution and Searchable Image exact will save your text without loosing its clean appearance. Low resolution will make your text readable, but crappy looking.
Option 2: Do similar, but save as image png, tiff, Steps 1,2 and 3 seem a long way when you could just skip to step 3 Print to PDF. No need to detour via XPS. Hennes Doing step 4 yields the error Acrobat could not perform OCR on this page because: This page contains renderable text — Fuhrmanator. Co-production practitioners network. In my Adobe it is merely a small chaeck box in the print preferences - I don't see any Print What box.
Placed pdf file is garbled. With most PDF viewers, you'll get one slide per page with no headers or footers. However, if you use the latest version of Adobe Reader, you can print 2 or more slides per page. The overall structure of the statement prints correctly lines, shapes, logos, etc as does the generic text that they include as information for every When I attempted to open a PDF containing that font, libreoffice chose a replacement font.
I attempt to open a PDF in draw and the text appears super garbled, not just disorganized, but In the past, I have opened these very same files using Adobe Acrobat Pro and the font is simply called Cafeteria.
If you ever try printing a PDF from within Adobe Reader but all the text prints as garbage "greeked" text , use this tip to work around it. From the Print dialog box in Adobe Reader, click the Advanced button in the bottom left corner of the print window.
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