lina <lina.lastname@gmail.com> writes: > I want to take a note (mainly take some essential copy) from a secured > pdf, which prevent copying. When you display it with xpdf, you can mark the parts you want to copy with the mouse pointer and paste them into your favourite text editor. I don't know if that works with protected PDFs, though. There's also tools like pdftotext and others that might work. -- html messages are obsolete