[feature] option for copying text without broken lines

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wenmin92
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[feature] option for copying text without broken lines

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The existing Copy Text Options helps us to remove unnecessary spaces when copying text, which is convenient. But it still retains unnecessary line breaks, which is annoying, and it would be great if such unnecessary line breaks could be removed as well.
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Re: [feature] option for copying text without broken lines

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Hello wenmin92,

Thanks for your post.
Can you please share a sample file where this happens, and I will pass it to our dev team with a request for them to look at this and see what improvements can be made to text copying?

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Stefan
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Re: [feature] option for copying text without broken lines

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Hello all,

for reference, there is already a thread related to this topic here, with two workarounds, one via a Word macro, and one as an AutoHotkey script:
viewtopic.php?p=141388&hilit=macro+script#p141388

(Btw, in my experience, the problem that wenmin92 describes occurs with virtually every PDF document)

However, I recently noticed that when copying text from PDFs via right-click as Rich Text, most of the time you don't get unwanted line-breaks anymore, but proper text paragraphs instead.

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Surprisingly, this seems to work even with many scanned and then OCRed documents.

Hope this helps
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Re: [feature] option for copying text without broken lines

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Hello David.P,

Many thanks for sharing that other topic and the solution!

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