Copying text from a protected pdf file

[Leonard Isham]

On 9/15/05, Paul Smith <phhs80 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear All
> 
> I have got a pdf file, whose text I would like to copy to a word
> processor. However, it seems to be protected, as when I copy and paste
> a piece of text from there into a word processor, I only see garbage.
> Is there some way of getting clean text from the pdf file?
> 

Try "printing" it to another unprotected PDF file and do the copy and
paste from there. YMMV

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Leonard Isham, CISSP 
Ostendo non ostento.