As far as I know, or can tell, Foxit Reader is great - small and fast, but I don't think it provides text extraction.  

If you want to clip and paste an IMAGE of the text into a document (or save it as a jpg), you can do so with free MWSnap, which will allow  you to draw a rectangle around ANYTHING on your screen and save it as an image file (jpg, png, bmp, etc.) and/or clip it to the Windows clipboard for pasting into a document.

AnnaSummers


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Hugh Vandervoort 
To: [log in to unmask] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 3:17 PM
Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Extract text from PDF


Foxit. Tools/Select Text.
A great, lightweight replacement for Acrobat reader:
http://www.foxitsoftware.com/pdf/reader/
Get the free version only.

On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Bob Lendrim <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a free tool or method which will extract text from a
> PDF file
> so it can be pasted/used in other applications? Thank you very much.
>
>
>

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