Copying text from a protected pdf file

[Paul Smith]

On 9/21/05, Partho Protim Paul <penguin.partho at gmail.com> wrote:
> i think leh tex , aka latex can solve this problem. tho i havent used it
> extensively. but i think is nice!
>  cheers!!
>
>
> On 9/21/05, Friz Whittington <f.whittington at att.net> wrote:
> > Paul Smith wrote:
> >
> > > <lots snipped>
> > >
> > >Thanks, George. Now, I understand how complicated is to achieve my
> > >goal, and therefore it is better to give up!
> > >
> > >Paul
> > >
> > >
> > If you can print it, then of course you can re-type :-)  But you might
> > also scan the copy and use OCR to recover the text.  If you can't print
> > it, then there's always screen snapshot->print->scan.

Thank you and Friz. I cannot see how LaTeX can solve my problem.

Paul