Copying images

[lucarnuz]

Can't copy images from a PDF file and paste in Powerpoint (operating in Mac). Can anybody help?

[try67]

Is Content Extraction allowed from the file? Can you copy text?

[lucarnuz]

Yes it is allowed. I can copy&paste text

[try67]

OK, then what happens when you try to copy an image?

[lucarnuz]

It just doesn't work. In case of a table, it just copy the text, not the frames; the same with images with notes, it copy only the text, not the image

[Bernd Alheit]

A table is not an image.

[lucarnuz]

yes but unfortunately I need to copy images like graphs that are composed of image and labels with text and numbers, as in scientific papers. Also I need to copy tables that have a frame with colored background and text within it and i can't do that.  Commonly you can do these operations, but I can't. My app is Adobe Acrobat Reader DC.

[try67]

What you need to copy is not an image, as mentioned. It's an amalgam of different types of objects, so copying it is not so straight-forward as it seems. However, it might still be possible. Use the "Selection tool for text and images" (which looks like this: ) and draw a rectangle around the table you want to copy, then press Ctrl+C. Now switch to PowerPoint (or maybe use Word) and press Ctrl+V, and see what comes out.

If that doesn't work you can always use the Snapshop tool (under the Edit menu) to capture the table as an image.