Remove unwanted carriage returns

Question

Our training manuals are PDF documents and they contain some long strings that students copy and paste into our system.

Examples are in tables, so the strings sometimes wrap.

In these cases when a string wraps to the next line in the PDF, if a student copies and pastes it into the system it often brings an invisible carriage return. This creates a problem since the carriage return is not visible but the string is invalid. It's very difficult to debug because it looks correct.

Is there any way to generate PDFs such that this does not happen? Is there any way to copy text from a PDF to avoid this?

Otherwise my only recourse is to edit the documents so there are no word wraps.

Thanks.

Dov Isaacs · Accepted Answer

There are no multiple options in terms of copying content from PDF files in Acrobat or Reader. There are often options in the “receiving program” such as Word in terms of keeping or discarding formatting that comes with the copied text.

No, there isn't any way to generate the PDF to avoid these types of situations. PDF is a “final form file format.”

- Dov

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