How to Copy Text From a PDF (Acrobat) Document

hi my name is dave Andrews today I'm going to show you how to copy text from an Adobe PDF document let's go to the computer and open up a PDF file I have here a file called portfolio not PDF this is my own professional portfolio and it has a lot of text in it by default when you open up Adobe it's going to have a tool selected that is the hand tool now the hand allows you to click and drag the mouse and that allows you to kind of scroll the window but what we're wanting to do is use the Select tool to grab some of this text and copy it so go up to the very top and under tools say select and zoom and just choose the select tool now as we move our mouse over the text it turns into the little cursor icon that we're used to seeing in a work in a regular word processing program just click somewhere grab that text and we're going to go to edit and say copy if I open up some sort of text editing program such as word I can then just like any other normal text that I would have copied simply right click and paste it's that easy to copy text out of an Adobe document my name is dave Andrews and I've just showed you how to copy text from an Adobe PDF

Channel: eHowTech

Views: 307,640

Keywords: computer programs, computer software, computers

Id: VpXkkpeyR7o

Length: 1min 55sec (115 seconds)

Published: Wed May 27 2015