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Trick to copy text from Secure PDF

Tuesday, May 18, 2010|

Surbhi Verma

In response to Sarabjit's Query....

Hello Friends,

Sometimes we require to copy text from any pdf file but Some PDF files don't let us copy or print text written in PDF because they are password protected by the pdf owner to protect the text from being copied.

Here is a trick by which not only you can copy the text of any secure pdf but you can edit the text also..... it short you can hack any pdf ;)

Follow these steps:
Step 1. Convert pdf into images by doing Print using dopdf v6
Step 2. Extract text from images and Convert into text form.

Detailed description of these Steps:

Step 1. Convert pdf into images by doing Print using dopdf v6

dopdf v6 used to create pdf files.It installs as a printer driver and helps you generate the PDF files by simply selecting the "print" command from any application (you can convert your Word documents, Excel sheets, PowerPoint presentations, Auto Cad drawings, company’s reports, contracts, workflows, agreements, marketing plans, forms, products list, price list, charts, emails or web pages)

Download dopdf v6
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Now open any secure PDF file. and press ctrl + P . Print window will open.
choose dopdf v6 in printer's name as shown in screenshot and click OK.

Step 2. Extract text from images and Convert into text form

Now open the new pdf file created in step 1 using dopdf v6.
Go to my previous post to Extract text from imageshttp://d-accord-surbhi88.blogspot.com/2010/05/recognize-text-from-images.html

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Anonymous
January 15, 2011 at 7:36 AM

Hello,

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