Copy un-secured PDF text to Office Word is very simple. Just follow the step by step tutorial below you can fix it easily. But if security has been set in, Copy text from PDF file to Word become inconvenient, you may need PDF to Word converter to process your PDF to Word conversion.

To copy any range of text (part of a page, a whole page, or the whole PDF file) of the PDF file to Word, follow these steps:

• 1. Open the PDF file in Adobe Reader.
• 2. Click the Tools, select to display the Basic submenu, and then click Select Text.
• 3. Select all the text in the PDF file that you want to copy, or click Select All on the Edit menu to select all the contents of the file, and then click Copy on the Edit menu.
• 4. Switch to Word, click the location where you want to paste the text, and then click Paste on the Edit menu.

And, if you need to copy all text from PDF file to Word, you can click File> Save as Text, then all PDF text has been saving to the txt document, then copy the text to Office Word and edit it.

Then how to copy text from secured PDF file to Office Word?
To determine whether the PDF file is security protected, on the File menu, point to Document, click Security then select Show Security Properties. If content copying is set to Not Allowed, you may need PDF to Word converter to process your PDF to Word conversion. Here are 2 programs suitable for PDF to Word conversion.

The first one is free PDF to TXT converter which can convert the secured PDF file to TXT. After converting PDF to TXT, you can copy the text to Office Word and then edit it. The disadvantage of the free tool is that all the pictures, formatting layout and hyperlinks lost after conversion.

The second tool is PDF to Word Converter. Using PDF to Word Converter you can get your Word documents with the layout, format, text contents, and images in the original PDF files exactly retained after convert PDF to Word documents.

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