Copy text from PDF

[Jazz43]

Hi everyone,
I'm trying to copy text from some PDF to Word 2013 but the lines keep cut off abruptly. If the there's an end-of-line in the middle of a sentence, it would just understand it as a new paragraph when copied over to Word. Effectively, breaking a paragraph into a few small ones. I'm trying to see if there's anyway I can find these sentences and fix them.

Like, for example, if it finds a new paragraph starting with a lower-case character, it would just append that paragraph to the previous one. Can I do something like that?

[Charles Kenyon]

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[macropod]

See also: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...ne-breaks.html. Fancy that, it's a reply to your own post of 11-11-2011!!!

[Jazz43]

Originally Posted by macropod

See also: https://www.msofficeforums.com/word/...ne-breaks.html. Fancy that, it's a reply to your own post of 11-11-2011!!!

Thank you. It was quite q while ago. But the macro also mistakes separate paragraphs as one. For example, if there is a ^p (paragraph break) character followed by a capital letter (which should be recognized as a new paragraph), it adds these two paragraphs together. Is there a better way to solve this?

[macropod]

Originally Posted by Jazz43

Thank you. It was quite q while ago. But the macro also mistakes separate paragraphs as one.

It makes no such mistake. As clearly stated in the post, it requires that you have two paragraph breaks between the logical paragraphs; other than that - or inserting some other kind of identifying marker - there is no other reliable way of identifying where a given paragraph ends. That might entail adding an extra paragraph manually, where required, but that's trivial compared to the effort the macro potentially saves you.

Your suggestion of using a paragraph break followed by a capital letter isn't reliable, as:
a) sentences within a multi-line paragraph can start on a new line; and
b) sub-paragraphs (such as this one), which are separate paragraphs formatting-wise, don't always start with capital letters; they may also start with lower-case letters, bullets, numbers or opening parentheses, for example.