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How to copy words and images

You can use Adobe Acrobat Reader (if you do not have Adobe Arcobat Reader, you can download it at http://www.adobe.com) to extract text and images from the Adobe PDF documents and copy them to a document created by another application. While in Adobe Acrobat Reader 7.0, you can click on the menu options Tools → Basic → Select for selecting any items on the pages.

Steps:
To copy part of text:
1. click on the menu option Tools → Basic → Select (picture 1)

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2. Select the text in the PDF document (picture 2)

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3. Then use the Copy and Paste option in the Edit menu for transferring the text to another document (pictures 3 and 4).

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To copy entire text:
1. select Save as Text from the File menu (picture 5).

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2. When the “Save As” pop up windows appears, type the file name and save the content as a text file (see pictures 6 and 7)

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Note to Macintosh users: if the content contains special Hong Kong characters, please use Preview to open the PDF file (for Mac OS/X only) and copy the text to other document. Mac OS 9 does not support Hong Kong special characters.

To copy images:
1. click on Basic → Select on the Tools menu (picture 8)

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2. Select the desired image in the PDF document (picture 9)

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3. Use Copy and Paste options on the Edit menu to transfer the selected image to another document. (pictures 9 and 10)

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