#Japanese ocr stack exchange mac os#

Print to PDF (Acrobat PDF, or CutePDF), using the highest resolution (600 DPI).Print from Acrobat using 'Microsoft XPS Document Writer' Output is: 'your file name.oxps'.(worked for me on Windows 8, Acrobat XI, Office 2010) These are two documents both generated at the same time with Filemaker Pro 11 on Mac - I can't imagine they would have different encodings or any such thing. The two source PDFs can be copied and pasted fine, but when dragging a page from one file into the other file, then saving the combined PDF, the text in the combined document can't be copy/pasted. I have also noticed this problem when combining PDFs with Preview. This might be useful for content creators running into similar problems copying and pasting text from PDFs - be careful using OS X Quartz filters to shrink your PDFs! But that might be the explanation - that the file was mangled somehow in an effort to reduce the file size. So, this is not totally helpful in your case, presuming that your PDF file was received from elsewhere and you can't get to the original version, if it was indeed compressed in some way. However running that same original PDF through Adobe Acrobat Pro's Document > Reduce File Size function, the resulting compressed PDF can successfully copy and paste text. I found that I am able to easily copy and paste text from the original (uncompressed) PDF file, but after running that PDF through a Reduce File Size filter I created, the resulting compressed PDF doesn't copy paste clearly (comes out looking like the strings you posted). I had created some Quartz filters using Colorsync Utility to compress images in PDFs to reduce the overall file size of PDFs with images.

#Japanese ocr stack exchange mac os#

I discovered this problem with PDFs I created, and I believe I tracked down the source of the problem: using Mac OS X's Preview to reduce the PDF file size.