Adobe Acrobat Reader?

[LevelFive]

I’m looking for some ECM for Adobe Acrobat Reader. I can cut and paste from some articles but some come out as gibberish. I think they are being scrambled in some way. Anyone know of a counter measure to this scrambling?

Here’s what it looks like.
__ ____#____ __ _______ __ ______ _ _______
__ _ ___D___ 8 _#$___!_ _ ___ ___ ______$_ _ __E
____E??___!___D___ _#$___!__? _______ _____
___?______ _?-0-0_ __ ____-0-0!____!
__ __ _ & __ _#__ _ _$__)_ _____ __ ____ _____
_#__________N____ __ _____ _ ___ _&_______#
____&_______#_______ !_
9__ __________ _________ __ ____O__ !__!

[ 14 January 2002: Message edited by: LevelFive ]</p>

[TR4A]

How to Select and Copy Text in Acrobat Reader

Acrobat Reader 4.x or later lets you copy text in PDF files that meet these conditions:
-- The files are formatted to contain text and not just images.
-- The files don't contain security restrictions that prevent you from selecting text.

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Maybe this workaround will help you.

Click on this link and download this 32 bit binary executable.
<a href="http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~gosho/pdftohtml/Download/binary/pdftohtml_0_31.exe" target="_blank">http://www.ra.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/~gosho/pdftohtml/Download/binary/pdftohtml_0_31.exe</a>

I've scanned it for viruses but you should too.

Change the name of the downloaded file to pdf2html.exe (to make things easy).

Save it in a folder with a standard DOS name - 8 or less characters, such as pdf2html (this is also to make things easy).

Copy and paste the pdf file into the same folder as the executable (to make things easy). It is ok if the pdf file has a long filename.

Open up a DOS window. You do not need to "exit to DOS" for this.

At the DOS prompt type the name of the executable (with or without the exe extension), skip a space, and then type the name of the file you want converted. If all goes well you will find in the same folder an HTML version of the pdf file. You may also find pngs or jpeg of images embedded in the pdf.

Open the html file with your favorite browser and then copy and paste as desired.

Example: Supposing you have renamed the download as suggested, placed it in the folder C:\pdf2html, and copied a pdf file myfile.pdf to the same folder.After opening up a DOS window, type cd\ at the first prompt, then cd pdf2html, and you will see something like

C:\pdf2html&gt;

Then after the prompt type

pdf2html myfile.pdf

so that the command line looks like

C:\pdf2html&gt;pdf2html myfile.pdf

Press enter and you will have an HTML file that is pure, unadulterated, unencoded, plain text.

[LevelFive]

Thanks for the help. I will give them a try. <img src="smile.gif" border="0"> <img src="smile.gif" border="0">