How to prevent text-copy-pasting

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May 13, 2021
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I have seen a lot of e-books with Its text can be copied but when pasted in notepad/ms word it becomes unreadable words or Weird characters . So kindly say Is there an option to do the same in Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

I want to prevent others from copying my PDF. I expect the same result as seen in the JPG attachment

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Correct answer try67

Sorry, can't help you with that. And even if you did it there are ways around it.

One can export the pages as images, then create a new file and run Text Recognition on it, and get selectable and copyable text (if the results of the OCR are good, of course).

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This is considered a serious fault in a PDF. Adobe won't give any tools to make faulty files. Yes, I can see it's convenient, for your wishes, but Acrobat and other tools can just do OCR and copy it anyway...

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Vilesh5C3AAuthor

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As I understand it from the internet. it is Usage of fonts with non-unicode glyph mapping. But I do not know how to do this. I could not even see it on any website.

try67

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What you're asking for is to deliberately create a corrupt file. You won't find any help or tutorials on how to do that here.

try67

Community Expert

This happens when you use a font that has bad encoding. It's generally a bad idea, as it not only prevents copying and pasting the text, but also searching it, making useful comments in it, etc. I would strongly recommend you don't do that.

You can apply a security policy that prevents content extraction in general, but be aware that many non-Adobe PDF viewers totally ignore it, and other tools allow you to remove it quite easily.

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Vilesh5C3AAuthor

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Thanks for your quick replay.
I have seen many videos like "How can I copy text from secured pdf".
That's why I inquired about such a security feature. so
Please tell, How can I add a bad encoded font in my pdf.

try67

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Community Expert

Sorry, can't help you with that. And even if you did it there are ways around it.

One can export the pages as images, then create a new file and run Text Recognition on it, and get selectable and copyable text (if the results of the OCR are good, of course).

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