Hi Joel,
I don't know how to select only portion of PDF document,
but by pressing CTRL+A folowed by CTRL-C select & copy ALL text from pdf file into clippboard buffer. You can paste it then into temporary txt file.
From there, you can chop chunks as u wish.

This is of course manual operation, so folowing Sergey's link
might be better direction if you are trying to automate this process.

Rgds++
Sergio


>I have several hundred contracts to scan and to put relivant data into SQL.
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>I had hoped I could scan the docs and then use cut and past to put certain portions of the contract into a VFP field.
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>For example some of the work descriptions are 6 - 10 line long. If we could copy that from the PDF it would sure save a LOT of time.
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>I can not make it work?????