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Close this window and log in. Join Us Close. Join Tek-Tips Forums! Join Us! By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail. Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden. Students Click Here. Hi, I wondered if anyone has encoutered this problem: Sometimes, when I select the text from a PDF created by a third party and paste it into Word I get weird characters or just plain lines and dots instead of the text, which I have no problem seeing on screen.
I've checked the security options but there's nothing selected. Saves time from typing the whole thing. My 2c. For each of the separate pages, I could search, copy and export text correctly from Adobe Reader on the Mac. That problem brought me here. The posts here gave me some good pointers thank you! I looked at the file properties for fonts.
The file combined in Preview where copied text is garbled showed encoding for most of the fonts as "Built-in" with a few as "Roman. The solution to my problem was under my nose all the time — the Scansoft program itself can combine files. Thanks, posters! I know this doesn't explain the Windows-only problems — unless the PDF had similar mixed origins? Sign up to join this community.
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Create a free Team What is Teams? Learn more. PDF has garbled text when copy pasting Ask Question. Asked 11 years, 8 months ago. Active 8 months ago. Viewed k times. I'm trying to copy and paste text from a PDF file. Improve this question. Try some screen reader utilities which works with jpeg, do a print screen and there you go or here is a different way. Just a 'guess', don't bite me for it.
I used the first way back then. Hope there are more convenient ways. Similar question: superuser. I can also confirm this problem with OS X, at least as of I've spent a bit of time going through the PDF file structure, but unfortunately I can't see any way to repair the damage.
I've raised a bug report with Apple - ID Mught be helpful superuser. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes. Improve this answer. Indeed, custom font encoding was the culprit for me. However, Chrome wasn't the solution. Any character groups to which LaTeX applies ligatures e. Same problem with chrome — JinSnow. Gavin Miller. I got a few pdf files from a mac os user. Try a bunch of pdf to word converters, including googledoc, adobe save as text, all of them gives garbled text.
Anyone out there aware of any means to "undo" such operation? I printed the pdf file to a several virtual printer, and I got inflated 4x size pdf files. If the text does not paste as gibberish, please send your document to our support staff and we'll get back to you with a more detailed analysis. Still need help? Contact Us Contact Us. What to do when a PDF document is converted to garbled characters and symbols?
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