{copy-paste} is about copying text and other elements from one place (often a PDF file) and allowing it to be pasted. Searching for text (in a PDF file) is a process closely related to copying because both use the OCR (optical character recognition) layer in the PDF file.
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What are good ways to make pdflatex output copy-and-pasteable?
One frequent aspect of pdflatex output that could be improved is to what extent one can select text output from the generated pdf-file and copy-and-paste it. This is essentially an issue of having the ...
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Is it possible to produce a PDF with un-copyable text?
Is it possible to produce a PDF with un-copyable text? I mean, when you want to copy text from the PDF, you can't copy it or what you copy is nonsense characters.
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Make ligatures in Linux Libertine copyable (and searchable)
I'm currently working on an essay written in LaTeX form. I'm facing problems with ligatures - in my pdf output (rendered using pdftex) opened in Adobe Reader I get X's and V's when copy-pasting words ...
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Small-caps, old-style numbers, and some ligatures produce odd symbols in PDF copy text?
This is a problem I've had consistently with XeLaTeX. Here's a small example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers={OldStyle,Proportional}]{Minion Pro}
...
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How to fix missing or incorrect mappings from glyphtounicode.tex
glyphtounicode.tex has been described as the best solution for generating copy-and-pasteable symbols. However, I find that various symbols that I need to use do not paste as the appropriate Unicode ...
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What can cause generated PDF document whose text are not correctly copyable?
I was wondering why some PDF documents compiled from some LaTeX code does not make its text correctly copyable, i.e. what you can get is nonsense text? For example, this pdf document (I don't have the ...
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How to make listings code indentation remain unchanged when copied from PDF?
So I am using listings package for code examples. But there is a problem. When I copy the code examples from the final PDF document, they are usually not the same - the indentation is gone, there are ...
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Problem copying text from pdf - spaces being stripped
I have the following minimal working example:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\begin{document}
é canção
\end{document}
I need to use the utf8 argument ...
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Problems with copy and paste from PDF using lstlisting
I'm using lstlisting to create course notes from which I am hoping that code can be copy&paste'd I've already implemented the suggestions in
Phantom spaces in listings (pdf) to make sure that ...
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How to copy contents of one file to another?
So I have a .txt-file and I need to import the data line per line. That works like it should. I need however to adapt the contents loaded into a command an write it to another .txt file that later ...
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Hyphens at end of line disappear upon pasting, even if they were present in the input
When I paste text from pdflatex output, there are two things about hyphens that I would like to change:
Hyphens paste as "hyphen-minus" (U+002D, "-"), but I would prefer the newer Unicode character ...
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Incompatibilities of cmap with fontenc/hyperref?
The following code doesn't compile (with pdflatex)
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[pdfa=true]{hyperref}
\begin{document}
Hello.
\end{document}
...
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Is it possible to prevent some part of text (headers, footers) from selection?
I'm looking for a solution that will allow me to prevent some parts of the final pdf file (header, footer) from being selected and copied. It is to allow easier quoting of longer parts of texts from ...
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Make hyphenated words in PDF searchable
Is there a way to make hyphenated words in a PDF generated by LuaTeX searchable? If the MWE below is converted to a PDF, searching for "lexicon" (in Acrobat X for example) will not find the word since ...
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Can we make ligatures copy-and-pastable?
Is there a straightforward way to make ligatures more copy-and-pastable? I know that by using
\usepackage[t1]{fontenc}
that many glyphs like accented and umlauted characters become ...
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Protect text in PDF from being copied [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
PDF with un-copyable text
What is the most effective ways to protect text in a PDF from being copied with Ctrl+C?
I know about standard PDF copy protection, and also ...
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Copying LaTeX from a PDF
Is there a way to copy from a PDF to a LaTeX document? Whenever I do it, it copies in with weird symbols in the place of LaTeX commands for example:
$$f:\mathbb{R}\rightarrow \mathbb{R}$$
copies in ...
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Remove hyphen from word spanning two lines in text copied from a pdf file
If I copy text from a PDF and a word is hyphenated and spans two lines, the copied text contains the "-". For example:
Examp-
le
should be copied as
Example
not
Examp-le
The problem is ...
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How to produce character-by-character-pastable visual output that is a function of the (intended-to-paste-as-such) source code input?
Note: The original phrasing of my question was this: How to use accsupp to produce all-upercase in the visual output from input that should paste in its original, ordinary-case form? However I think a ...
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How to make slash (/) paste with correct Unicode codepoint depending on context?
Unicode offers different characters for the slash:
U+002F (/) for the ordinary slash
U+2215 (∕) for the mathematical division operator
U+2044 (⁄) to designate vulgar fractions
How can I have these ...
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Copy Czech characters from PDF with charter font
I wanna be able to copy czech characters from PDF, but for some reason it doesn´t work.
here is my code:
\usepackage{cmap}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{charter}
...
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How do I paste codepoints outside of the basic multilingual plane with accsupp or \pdfglyphtounicode?
As described in the answers to this question, the accsupp package can be used to have symbols paste as arbitrary Unicode codepoints. For example you might want to write something like the following, ...
