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Foxit needs Adobe's square doohickey for copying text
de nicholasdu 04/09/2006 03:05
One of the things I have discovered that Adobe has but Foxit does not
is what I call by its technical name: the 'square doohickey'. When the
text selection button is clicked, and I begin selecting text from
outside the text area, it puts a box around the text. Then, I paste
the text into document scanning software and perform OCR. Step three
is to paste the optically recognized text wherever I want it placed.
This may seem like a lot of steps. However, with .pdfs that have two
columns of text, the simple text selection wants to select text across
columns. The 'square doohickey' and OCR seem to be the best way to get
around this.