[muglo] PDF Modifying

After speaking with Norm yesterday I think this is the essence of his  
problem with respect to PDF editing.  The information below was taken  
from the following URL.

https://ecf.cand.uscourts.gov/cand/faq/pdf/pdf_info.htm#PS03

"...I want to copy and paste from a PDF document, but I can't seem to  
select any text. How do I copy and paste?

You can select, copy and paste text in Acrobat, but you must first  
select the text tool (look for the T on the toolbar) instead of the  
hand. Then select the text, and either right-click and choose copy,  
or use the Acrobat copy icon (a couple of icons to the left of the  
Text tool on the Acrobat toolbar). In version 5 of Acrobat, there are  
two text select tools. The outline T, called "Column Select Text  
Tool" will allow you to pick text from a document without also  
getting the pleading paper numbers along with the text.

If you cannot select the text, then the PDF was scanned in.  Scanned  
documents in PDF act just like photographs, so the text within is not  
recognized as "text", just the image of the text...."

There are other links but this seems to answer the question.

So scanning a magazine article converts the page to a photograph  
which means no copy and paste of text. The solution is I think an OCR  
program of some type in order to get at the text unless PDFPen can  
also do that (haven't checked).


Martin

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