how to copy different text selections from a pdf in adobe acrobat reader

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January 15, 2023
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Good day,

This maybe an easy question to answer, but I could not find it. How do copy and paste different lines of text from a pdf in acrobat reader? I do not want to copy the whole document nor is the text adjacent to each other. The information to copy is scattered throughout the document.

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try67

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As mentioned, this is not possible using the normal Text Selection tool. However, if you select the text using something like the Highlight tool a script can be used later on to extract the underlying texts and export them as a single block, which you could then copy to Word, for example.