Adobe acrobat doubles numbers if they are between dashes?

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July 16, 2024
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Hello,

I've encountered a problem that I desperately need to solve. So my PDF have some product codes in it, in the form of digits, like 011-168-2391. Everything looks fine until you try to copy / paste it. If you copy "011-168-2391" then the pasted code will be 011-168168-2391, so I guess that the number between the dashes gets doubled, but why? How can I turn this off? The same will happen if I copy "011-168-168-2391" and I'll get "011-168168-168168-2391".

Thank you in advance,
Thomas

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try67

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This is usually the result of how the file was created. Do you know how it was made, and do you have control over it?

If not, there's not much you can do, short of re-creating it from scratch, by exporting the pages as images, creating a new PDF from those images and running OCR ("Recognize Text") on the new file.

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Thomas DipAuthor

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Thank you for your response!

Yes, the file is mine, made on ms 365 publisher. Will everyone that has access to the PDF be able to use OCR? Because it's meant for my company's clients.

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Thomas DipAuthor

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I just exported as pdf and this happens when I open it in Acrobat. The file contains images and textboxes, nothing too complicated.

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