How to cut and paste a PDF document

Magic_Moments · 22 May 2013 at 4:19PM

I have received a response from Monarch airlines on a PDF document. I want to post most of it on the Monarch Flight delay compensation forum on this site. Despite all my efforts I have not been able to accomplish this task. Is there anyway of doing this, I have thought of cut and paste but it will not allow me to do this on a PDF document. I notice quite a few people have managed to post part responses from Monarch on the above forum, so I must be possible and I am doing something wrong. Can somebody give me any advise on this subject please.

isofa · 22 May 2013 at 4:27PM

If you can't copy and paste (not cut and paste), it's because it's been locked/secured by the creator to prevent "content extraction", try copy rather than cut first though...

yangptangkipperbang · 22 May 2013 at 9:08PM

Use the "snipping tool" ??

Wi88le · 22 May 2013 at 9:19PM

Print, scan, select, cut, paste, copy.

Yorkie1 · 22 May 2013 at 9:39PM

As above - there's a snipping tool, or a snapshot tool. This takes a copy of the selected area and you can paste it elsewhere.

Jivesinger · 22 May 2013 at 9:50PM

But I don't think the snipping tool works on PDFs that have been locked down. At least not with the most recent version of Adobe Reader (I did wonder if an older one might work).

laurel7172 · 22 May 2013 at 9:58PM

Have you tried taking a screenshot via Alt/Printscreen, then pasting into Paint?

lammy82 · 22 May 2013 at 11:08PM

The point is that whether you use Print Screen, or the snipping tool, or print it out and then scan it back in (!), you will not be getting text that can be pasted into the forum. You will be getting an image which you will have to host somewhere, and then provide a link to it in the forum. In which case you might as well just upload the PDF and link to that instead.

I suggest you try using this service which just did a very good job of extracting text from a sample PDF I uploaded: http://www.extractpdf.com/

Hope this helps

giraffe69 · 23 May 2013 at 7:54AM

Office 2013 allows pdf's to be opened and edited.

agrinnall · 23 May 2013 at 8:00AM

It's probably going to be quicker to simply re-type it yourself.

Magic_Moments · 23 May 2013 at 8:38AM

I have tried scanning, then cutting and pasting but this does not work. As for typing it myself it is two A4 sheets long and consists on lots of legal terminology so I would not want to get it wrong and mislead anybody. It needs to be quoted verbatum. i rally feel it may be useful to include on the delay compensation claim forum otherwise I would not bother.Not sure where to find the snipping tool mentioned in this forum. thank you everbody for your input but I still need more help!!! I am not a "techno", so simple and easy to follow instructions will be useful.