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I'm trying to copy text from a PDF file, but I get garbage. I'm using Document Reader on Ubuntu to read the document. It's not like its not allowing me to copy, but just that the copied text looks like this:
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What can I do to fix this? its a large amount of data will take a really long time to type.
Also, incidentally, the pasted text looked like this on gedit (Ubuntu):
(notice that it looks different when pasted here in this question!)
I sense it is somehow an encoding problem, but I have no way of knowing how to fix this.
3I think it's on purpose; the person who created the document purposefully made it so you couldn't copy/paste or export. I've had a few PDF's like this too. Mostly tables or excel spreadsheets made into PDFs by Adobe software. – skub – 2012-01-28T22:23:18.957
@slhck sure! here it is
– Chani – 2012-01-28T22:26:34.423