Bill wrote:

>
>But you can still "copy and paste" text from a PDF file by using the
>"abc" button in Acrobat Reader to activate the "text selection" curser.
>Or did you mean that it is impractical to use some kind of conversion
>program to convert (all the text) from PDF to TXT?
>

Our company uses PDF for manuals with protection ON so that you cannot copy
or even print to file to get the text into a word processor.  The only way
we have found around this is to 1) capture screen, 2) save as file 3) use
OCR software.

Doug Simmons
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