Eenuh Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Hey all. I need to read through a lot of PDF files for school and I need to be able to copy text from these. Right now I'm just typing out all the stuff I need, but of course that's very time consuming. Does anyone know of a free program that lets me highlight and copy text from a PDF file? Don't really need anything fancy, but it does have to work on my Mac, OS 10.4.11 (yes, I know, old). I tried opening the file in Illustrator, but all the words were on different layers so yeahhh, that didn't work haha. Any help? =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cube Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Do you need just the words, or the whole layout? Google Docs can scan the words from a PDF document. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 Do you need just the words, or the whole layout? Google Docs can scan the words from a PDF document. Just needed the text. Google Docs, works for it, thanks! =D Never used it before so didn't know you could do this with it. Saves me a lot of trouble haha. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burny Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Out of interest, why didn't the Select tool of the Adobe Reader suffice / what more can Google Docs do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 Out of interest, why didn't the Select tool of the Adobe Reader suffice / what more can Google Docs do? I don't have Adobe Reader on here, so I wouldn't know. =P Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shorty Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 Adobe Reader is free, as is Foxit. But Google Docs is far simpler a solution anyway Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burny Posted May 23, 2011 Share Posted May 23, 2011 I just assumed that Adobe Reader would be the standard go-to-program for anyone unfamiliar with pdfs. And as limited as it is, even that supports highlighting and copying text. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eenuh Posted May 23, 2011 Author Share Posted May 23, 2011 I've used plenty of PDFs and made my own with InDesign, but I never really had to copy text from it. Whenever I open one, it opens in Preview which suits me fine usually. I think I deleted Adobe Reader off my laptop to make space, as I never used it anyway. *shrugs* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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