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Hi quintonv,
As mentioned, you are getting gibberish text when copying and pasting text from pdf, it seems the issue seems to be the font related.
If the fonts of PDF don't have Unicode tables and do not use standard encoding for mapping the glyph indices to characters then you get garbage characters during copy/paste.
Also, there is a possibility the fonts used to create the PDF file are not available on your system.
you may try using the PDF Fixup Profile "Embed Fonts" in the Preflight tool to em
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Try right clicking the text and "copy with formatting".
I have been trying to OCR Japanese documents and copy/pasting doesn't work, exporting as Word doesn't work. However, right clicking and "copy with formatting" *does* work, but apparently only for very small sections of text.
Not sure if it will work with other documents, but give it a try and see how you go.
This seems to be an ongoing and unfixed issue in Acrobat. All the various "solutions" refer to the lack or corruption of font informatio
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Hi guys, I just found a solution and thought it might help someone.
Basically you can just open the google translate app on your phone, and use the image translation function (camera) to scan the file. Note that you'll need to set both the detected and result languages same as the file language, otherwise it'll translate into another language. When the process completes, select 'copy text', and then you can copy the text. You're welcome!
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