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MrBluesGuy
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May 13, 2016
Question

Cutting & pasting from a pdf into word but also including the .pdf document name under the paste

  • May 13, 2016
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Hope someone can help if this is a possibility with Acrobat. Thanks

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ms_baker
ms_baker
Inspiring
May 19, 2016

Hi Raj -

No, not at all. Once you have the text in the screenshot captured, it's just a matter of leaving that PDF open while you're assembling all your cut and paste content, adding the copied text from the captured screenshot as necessary.

donna.

ms_baker
ms_baker
Inspiring
May 18, 2016

Hi there -

No, it doesn't work like that unfortunately. But here's a weird idea that just may work for your project.

In your Windows Explorer or Mac Finder show the source files in a list view. Then do a screenshot of the list.

Convert the screenshot to PDF in Acrobat, and capture the text.

Now rather than having to go to your file list utility, you can just copy it from that captured PDF and paste it to your sheet.

This is such an odd idea but I bet it would work. Would you like to see it in a video? I'll do a test shortly and post the video later this afternoon. I have to see if it'll work myself

donna.

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MrBluesGuyAuthor
Participant
May 19, 2016

Thanks Donna that eliminates some steps but surely it still takes longer than simply typing the source file name under each paste ?

Raj

Sarojini_Nagar
Community Manager
Sarojini_NagarCommunity Manager
Community Manager
May 15, 2016

Hi MrBluesGuy ,

Could you please attach a screenshot of the issue you facing so that we can analyze the issue at our end.

Also please let us know the OS version and the Acrobat version you have ?

Regards

Sarojini

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MrBluesGuyAuthor
Participant
May 15, 2016

Hi Sarojini,

Thanks for your interest

I have not yet bought Acrobat as I need to know if it has this functionality.

Simply put I have several research papers with annotated sections (e.g. Introduction, background etc..) and need to cut and paste these sections

Into introduction.doc, background.doc etc. Is there a way of having the original .pdf filename appended to the bottom of the paste so I can trace

Individual sections back to their source pdfs?

Perhaps I need some other software for making scrapbooks ?

Cheers

Raj

ms_baker
ms_baker
Inspiring
May 15, 2016

Hi Raj -

Acrobat will give you the functionality that you're looking for with the file names. It won't extract the metadata automatically from the source document, but there's a quick workaround.

Copy the name of the pdf file from the list on the Home page in Acrobat DC. Then go to your document containing the pasted material and press CTRL/COMMAND + V to paste the file name to the pdf page. Acrobat places the text into a new text frame on the page.

I hope that works for you.

donna.

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