How to retain spacing from PDF to Word.

Hi all,
Working on a very important project that will involve copying a lot of text excerpts from PDF to .doc files; however, when I try to do this,
the text's spacing is completely lost. From what I've read elsewhere, this is a very common problem...does anybody know how to fix it?
I simply do not have to time to type out all of the text I need (hundreds of pages) by hand...
Thanks so much!

Hey, first you can try another free pdf reader for mac, like Calibre, to see if the copy and paste problem still remains. The fact is that if you want to preserve the format of a pdf file, copy and paste is not the best way. And manually doing that will take you a lot of efforts. You can try a pdf to word converter for mac. The converter can preserve text, layout and other elements in an editable word document. Sure you don't have to type out all the things, as the software does all the work.

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