OCR-text from pdf to pdf ?

Is it possible to copy the OCR-text from a pdf file obtained after Finereader and paste it in the original pdf?

Having had to perform OCR indicates the original PDF is a scanner's output. That makes it an image / picture of text forming the PDF page content.
An alternative approach -
Using Acrobat XI Pro create a new, blank PDF page (****+Ctrl+T).
Copy the OCR text.
Use Acrobat XI's Tools - Add Text and paste the OCR text at the cursor location.
Be well...

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Rishi,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
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Mulga
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Rishi,
Welcome to Apple Discussions.
After reading your post, I tried to duplicate this problem. I opened a PDF, selected a sentence, then copied it to the clipboard. I then opened Pages, selected the blank template, then pasted in the text. It pasted perfectly.
Does this problem happen with all text in a PDF? With different PDFs?
-Dennis

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I have implemented pdf but it generated text from the autogenrated xml.
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<fo:layout-master-set>
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I tried opening it with Adobe Reader 9 ...... but still no luck
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