When a picture ( text ) is selected from an Adobe PDF then paste 2

[tradeskillsllc]

In the Adobe Acrobat PDF, there is no option to select the text in the
document what it does is allow you to copy a picture of the page. > Then when
that picture is pasted into the OneNote 2007 software and I highlight the
picture and select the option copy text from picture > when I paste the text
into a Word document nothing shows up whatsoever, when I paste text into the
OneNote 2007 software it shows the new small clipboard icon which gives you
different options on what you would like to paste but none of the options
present any text. I'm trying to do this so that I can paste the text from the
Adobe document into a text to speech reader for use with college research. If
anyone has any recommendations on which text to speech reader is best suited
for this task please let me know. Or the solution to this problem with the
pasting the text from the option to copy text from a picture. Also you can
search for my name on Yahoo and freewebs to find some useful information.
Matthew Lane Tripp.

 

[Rainald Taesler]

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In the Adobe Acrobat PDF, there is no option to select the text in
the document what it does is allow you to copy a picture of the
page.

You are doing somethinmg wrong.
Acrobat does have the feature to copy text.
a) On the toolbar there is an icon showing a cursor+a little up-arrow
(in the Reader it's between the hand and the camera icon).
b) From the menu Edit | Mark all

This copies text to the clipboard and can be pasted into ON.
Caveat: the text is plain text, not formatted.

Rainald

 

[tradeskillsllc]

Yes, Globalcide is wrong. I confess I did it. But I have a cheap plan to
drain the everglades so no worries cause I have all the answers . I R
SMART HOOAH SEEMPURH FAIEEgit

A lot of these PDF's are not Text documents, they are PICTURES of text
documents... they do that to persuade people not to steal dissertations
written by people who spent 10 years learning the required knowledge with
which to construct a 294 page dissertation which if you could just "select
all" and copy and paste that could present a problem with university systems.
Like they don't want you copy and pasteing digital books like say for
instance a PDF of thermonuclear medicine that costs 10,000 US dollars a year
to subscribe to.

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

In addition to what Rainald said, here is a bit of background: When you
print from a PDF to OneNote, OneNote only gets a picture of the
document. It does not receive the actual text from Adobe. OneNote then
tries to recognize the text in the picture (using OCR) which is an
ok-working process at best, but normally the output is rather bad. Using
the way via OneNote is not a method to get reliably the text out of a
PDF document. It is absolutely possible that OCR doesn't work and you
get no text at all from it, which is what seems to be going on in your
case.

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[Rainald Taesler]

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Yes, Globalcide is wrong.
Who?

I confess I did it. But I have a cheap
plan to drain the everglades so no worries cause I have all the
answers . I R SMART HOOAH SEEMPURH FAIEEgit
?????

A lot of these PDF's are not Text documents, they are PICTURES of
text documents...

Normally not. Only in rare cases where document were *scanned* into a
PDF

they do that to persuade people not to steal
dissertations written by people who spent 10 years learning the
required knowledge with which to construct a 294 page dissertation
which if you could just "select all" and copy and paste that could
present a problem with university systems. Like they don't want you
copy and pasteing digital books like say for instance a PDF of
thermonuclear medicine that costs 10,000 US dollars a year to
subscribe to.

No. This normally is prevented in a different way:
With Acrobat one can precisly set thet security level - no
modifications (editing, commenting), no extraction of text, no
printing.

Apart from that: Which way did you try to copy the PDFs in question
into ON?
As Patrick said: Printing into ON is something totally diferent from
*printing* into ON.

Rainald

 

[Patrick Schmid [MVP]]

Normally not. Only in rare cases where document were *scanned* into a

PDF

That's basically the case for lots of journal articles published prior
to 199something or so. JSTOR e.g. is mainly scanned documents.

No. This normally is prevented in a different way:
With Acrobat one can precisly set thet security level - no
modifications (editing, commenting), no extraction of text, no
printing.

Yes, if someone wants to restrict the PDF, then it is definitely
restricted. The only way to get stuff out of a totally restricted PDF is
taking screenshots. Most likely the reason why the documents are scanned
is that they weren't available in electronic form. That is the case for
a lot of articles.

Apart from that: Which way did you try to copy the PDFs in question
into ON?
As Patrick said: Printing into ON is something totally diferent from
*printing* into ON.

Huh? Whether you print with the printer driver to ON or copy & paste an
image shouldn't make a difference. ON should run OCR in both cases.
However, on document that was scanned, saved as PDF and then printed to
ON, your chances of success with OCR are really low.

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