Cant copy as usual from pdf preview to word

I try to copy some paragraphs from my pdf in preview mode, the result is always bad. with a lot of space and line breaks. someone can help?

In the right side - you can see what I tried to copy.

in left side - the result


edit* I noticed what is breaking my line is the "*" or "-" any solution fo that?


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Posted on Dec 25, 2024 6:24 AM

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Posted on Dec 26, 2024 9:36 AM

An alternative is to open that PDF in Word v16.31 or later and have it automatically convert the PDF to a Word document. You then copy/paste between two Word documents and potentially avoid any encoding issues that might occur during a PDF to Word copy/paste operation.

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Dec 26, 2024 6:56 PM in response to aviv101

Sorry I don't understand that language but since you've said those dots and hyphens are changed, and it's normal. They will be recognized and auto-generated in Word, but in PDFs, they are just characters. I found they are normal in the content you pasted but the line breaks are changed, which is also normal when copying from a PDF. Characters in PDF are located by their location and they are not line-based or word-based.


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