Copying text from a protected pdf file

[Peter Arremann]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 14:09, Paul Smith 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?
If the other thing sthat were posted on this list don't work try pdf2html - it 
should give you a nice html output. Last time I checked it ignored the 
protect flag. 

Peter.