Portable Document Format files can contain many types of data, including images, charts and simple text. If you want to use the information from a PDF in your next PowerPoint presentation, you can do ...

Although the Mac offers fantastic support for opening and editing PDFs in the built-in Preview app, the simple act of copying and pasting text from a PDF can still be a nightmare. For instance, ...

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac. If ...

Google Chrome is rolling out a feature that allows users to copy text from scanned PDFs. This has been a long time coming. One of the most frustrating things about opening a PDF in Chrome is that ...

As software has grown more sophisticated, there is more opportunity for users to mash up content between different programs. The Excel spreadsheet program, for example, used to handle only text and ...

Widely used PDF files capture text and images nearly exactly as they display in the application that created them. The format is designed to store text and both bitmapped and vector images, with the ...