While this posting seems embarrassing silly, perhaps it will serve some purpose.
I had a 900 plus page PDF very old publication, found at books.google.com through a hit on a book search. It had a two-page article I wanted to share in or Druid's guide to Herbalism FPg.
So I decided to highlight, copy and paste it into a notepad and then into a blog. The first section was fully lined on the page. Then it switched to two column mode. Well, of course, I copied all two pages left-hand column and the right-hand column into notepad, then into the blog. Where I tried to correct OCR mistakes, etc. But it made no sense because of the columns flowing left to right per page.
Ok, old fool figures this out, starts over, spends lots of time having to reformat almost every line but gets a nice blog done. Finds Copyright free Image for it and figures out what Amazon Associate ads would be appropriate for the content.
Finally gets in posted to FB group.
Well, next hit on Books.Google.com brings up another very large tomb of a journal, but this one has about 60 pages I need out of over 900. Well, I am not going to try the Highlight and copy thing again. Come on Brain, you have done this kind of thing before.
Ah, use Adobe print to PDF by selected page range. Ok, works like a champ. But of course, there is always a but. Both works had embedded words searchable OCR.
The copy and paste to WordPad, of course, was still word searchable. But the Printed page range PDF file was not.
Perhaps there is another way without running new PDF through an OCR S.W. program, but I am not aware of it.
Not owning Adobe Software and only using free version may be part of the problem.
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