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ABBYY® FineReader 15 User’s Guide
Copying content from PDF documents
The PDF Editor allows you to copy text, pictures, and tables from PDF documents to other applications.
These features can be used in PDF documents of any type, even those that contain only scans.
Complete the following steps to copy text:
1. Select the text that you want to copy.
2. Right-click the selected text and click Copy Text on the shortcut menu or click one of the
icons on the pop-up toolbar that appears above the text.
3. Paste the text into the desired application.
To copy text from a page that already has a text layer (whether original or created by the
background recognition process), select the text, right-click it, and click Copy Text on the shortcut
menu.
Complete the following steps to copy a table:
1. Select the table that you want to copy.
2. Right-click the selected table and click Copy Table on the shortcut menu or click one of the
icons on the pop-up toolbar that appears above the table.
You can use the pop-up toolbar above the table to edit the table before copying it. You can
add vertical and horizontal separators to the table, remove separators, and split or combine
table cells.
No changes will be made to the table in the original file.
After editing the table, click Copy Table again.
3. Paste the table into the desired application.
If the copied content is significantly different from the original document: