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Old 12-29-2017, 06:13 AM
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Fine Reader is great as far as it goes, but it still has to overcome one of the most daunting tasks that you might ask a PC to perform - OCR. This is essentially turning graphics into text, so you should not be too surprised that it rarely produces an accurate conversion.

I assume from the fact that you have not used Word 2016 to open and convert the PDF that it is not intended for such copying.

Try printing the PDF file to paper and scan the resulting pages into FineReader. You may get better results ... but may not.
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