Copying Text from PDF table is not formatted correctly + solution

Dec 2, 2011 · 1 minute read
Category: ubuntu

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If you need to extract the information from a PDF table sometimes when you copy and paste it into a text editor the formatting is incorrect making the information useless.

In cases like this, you can use pdfedit to extract the text in the correct formatting and then do what you need with it.

To use the program first make sure it’s installed. If not install it like this

sudo apt-get install pdfedit

then use it to open the PDF. Click through the the correct page and then click Page -> Extract Text From Page