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How to Cut & Paste From an Adobe Acrobat Document

Adobe created the portable document format (PDF) as an attempt to ensure that documents saved as PDF files remained in their original state. Therefore, when working inside Adobe Acrobat, the program most commonly used for editing PDF files, you will see that the cut feature is grayed out unless you are the current author of the content and have not saved the final document. You can, however, copy and paste recognizable text from Acrobat. In addition, Acrobat has a feature called Snapshot that allows you to copy an image of part of the PDF document.

Instructions

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  Cut text or objects as the current author of the PDF. Select the text or object. Select "Edit" then "Cut."
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  Recognize text from graphics. Before copying text from a scanned image, you will need transfer the text from a graphic state to a font state. Select "Document," "OCR Text Recognitions" and "Recognize Text Using OCR." Select "All" and press "OK." Note that this may not work for all of the text within the document because Acrobat may not recognize the font, or the document's original author may have locked the text for security purposes.
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  Copy recognizable text within the PDF. Select the text that you want to copy with the "Text Selection" tool. Select "Edit" then "Copy."
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  Copy text and objects within the PDF. Select. "Tools," "Select & Zoom" and "Snapshot Tool." Select the part of the page to copy.
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  Paste the cut or copied text or object. In the document in which you want to paste, select "Edit" then "Paste."

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