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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. Sent from my iPhone > On Feb 24, 2021, at 5:06 AM, Andrew Cunningham <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 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: >> >> 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. >> > > > -- > Andrew Cunningham > [log in to unmask]