I second PDF-XChange. It’s my preferred pdf-handling program even though I now have access to Acrobat. The free version lets you do a wide variety of things including OCR and mark up pdfs - I used it throughout grad school for all my readings.

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> On Feb 24, 2021, at 5:06 AM, Andrew Cunningham <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> There are many tools that can extract text or convert a PDF to another
> format, but t is important to realise that the process will not always
> work. PDFs don't technically contain text, but resolve glyph sequences to
> encoded strings during extraction, But this conversion is not always 100%.
> 
>> On Tue, 23 Feb 2021 at 08:17, charles meyer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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>> Hi my esteemed listmates,
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>> 
>> My bad if I missed this but I’m looking for a downloadable (not online) PDF
>> editor?
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>> 
>> 
>> 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?
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>> 
>> 
>> Thank you!
>> 
>> 
>> Charles.
>> 
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