>>Keep in mind that the text you see in a PDF may not be text in the PDF - it could be an image. It depends on how the PDF was created.
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>True - but unlikely that it's in an image. Most likely it's in ASCII, hex or an encoded stream - all of which, I would assume, would be understood by Word....

That's not quite true:

- A few years back, in the early days of free PDF printer drivers I ran into a least one, might have been more, of those drivers that created PDFs by creating image snapshots of each page and then stitching them together, one image per page, into a PDF

- The original source could be images of text. I for one do this quite often, sending screen shots or snipping tool images for support purposes. I also train my primary contact at each client how to use PrtSc, Alt-PrtSc and the Snipping Tool so they can send me error messages "verbatim"; they invariably think that's cool and start using it with other people