Copying text from a protected pdf file

[Friz Whittington]

Paul Smith wrote:

> <lots snipped>
>
>Thanks, George. Now, I understand how complicated is to achieve my
>goal, and therefore it is better to give up!
>
>Paul
>  
>
If you can print it, then of course you can re-type :-)  But you might 
also scan the copy and use OCR to recover the text.  If you can't print 
it, then there's always screen snapshot->print->scan.