An edge case but I've been using the pdftools package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/pdftools/index.html)  in R recently with the udpipe package (https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/udpipe/index.html) and it just... works! 

Christina

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Charles asked the exact question I was tasked with figuring out this week.

Thank you all for your suggestions- super helpful!

On Mon, Feb 22, 2021 at 5:24 PM Hammer, Erich F <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Are you working with PDFs with OCR'd and/or indexed text?  If so, just 
> about any PDF reader will allow copying the text out (if the PDF isn't 
> protected).  SumatraPDF (https://www.sumatrapdfreader.org) is my 
> choice for a functional reader with a much lower risk than "fully functional"
> readers.
>
> If you need to OCR scanned documents you might try NAPS2 ( 
> https://www.naps2.com/).
>
> If  you are looking to automate OCR using scripts, take a look at 
> Tesseract (https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract).
>
>
>
> On Monday, February 22, 2021 at 16:15, Charles Meyer eloquently inscribed:
>
> > Hi my esteemed listmates,
> >
> > My bad if I missed this but I’m looking for a downloadable (not 
> > online) PDF editor?
> >
> > I want to be able to copy “language” out of a PDF I receive and 
> > paste it
> in
> > plain text in a word[processor document.
> >
> > Can you please recommend PDF editors you’ve actually used which 
> > worked well?
> >
> > Thank you!
> >
> > Charles.
>
>
>