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Why Cant I Copy Text from PDFs?

April 26, 2017copy PDFs text

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Why Cant I Copy Text from PDFs?

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In the first few versions of PDF, this was true. Adobe did not want people to copy a text, so you couldn’t copy. In version 3.x and 4.x, this changed. You can grab and copy text, just like in any other program, and paste it into any Windows program.