PDF files copy image instead text

[jony1]

my PDF Document is not secure. Copying allowed. but when I copy text it copy image instead. Bu its the only files like this all other files copy but only one not. I am using Adobe reader acrobat 11 ver. windows 10

[try67]

It's possible the file only contains an image, and not actual text. Does it find the text if you search for it in the application?

[jony1]

thanks try67, No there is not image- its only text. Other all pdf files can copy but this file now.

[Dov Isaacs]

The two most likely possibilities are:

(1)  The text is involved with some type of transparency and the PDF file was flattened to remove the transparency attribute. That result can be text represented as raster images.

(2)  One much more likely result would be that whatever created the document output raster images in lieu of actual text. One really gross example of this is Microsoft Office applications on Windows if you use Microsoft's own save as PDF as opposed to using Acrobat's PDFMaker facility and if the text was using an OpenType CFF font. For such text which Microsoft doesn't to know how to (or want to know how to) properly handle, they simply use a raster image of the text using that font.

               - Dov

[jony1]

Have no idea. Ectually it has started issue with when I updated from windows xp to windows 10 It was first pretected mode then it fixed itself and ince then having problem. acro32 is the file whicht might not suitable to this windows 10 but It does not go away I uninsattaled and reinstalled manytimes