Hi Charles, Is the PDF you're trying to extract text from a scanned document? If so, you likely can't highlight the text because it's technically an image. You can apply Optical Character Recognition (OCR) to rectify this. GIMP doesn't have OCR capabilities, though there are a few plugins floating around on Github. If you don't have the paid version of Acrobat, you can look into other OCR software options. Here is a list of projects <https://tesseract-ocr.github.io/tessdoc/User-Projects-%E2%80%93-3rdParty.html> that use the Tesseract engine, many of which are simple drag and drop solutions. Best, Magnus On May 28, 2023, 4:11 PM -0400, charles meyer <[log in to unmask]>, wrote: My esteem listmates, I've read through Googled results which many suggest in Acrobat Reader (fee) I should be able to highlight words in a PDF and copy and paste them into a Word document as plain text. My Acrobat Reader won't do that. Is there an easier way to do this in GIMP? I found a good Web site for learning GIMP skills with screenshots - for the unintimidated - https://thegimptutorials.com/ but I didn't find any tutorials re: extracting words out of a PDF. Might it be referenced as some other term of GIMP? My goal is to extract names, phone #s and email addresses out of scanned business cards and paste them into Word as plain text. Thank you. Charles. Charlotte County Public Library