How to Copy text from a protected PDF with Google Drive The third alternative also takes advantage of another Google Service. Instead of the Web Browser, you’ll use Google Drive to do so.

There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac.

There's nothing worse than opening a PDF and realizing you can't use the search function or even highlight text. This typically happens when a PDF was created by scanning a paper document—it's ...