Problem in pdf export and subsequent selection

Question

Well I'm starting to have a very bad weekend. I know I can do a lot of this in acrobat but that would defeat the point of why to use indesign.
My problem is as follows: There's a LOT of python tutorials in indesign formats at my work. Now the BIG problem is that python is dependent on white space on start of the line. But once in PDF format the text selection tool refuses to select the spaces at the start of the line.
If anybody of you has programmed python you'd know that's a bad thing indeed. So what we have now is thousands upon thousands of lines of examples the user can not easily select and copy paste into their use. Without spending a excessive amounts of adding spaces.
So apart of ditching using pdf and indesign as medium. Is there any easy way that i can:
1 ) Override the function of adobe reader. So it selects the whitespace
(I know its there if text touchup i can see it)
2 ) Instruct indesign to export a pdf text field out of a certain
paragraph style per paragraph.
Something other I can do? This is killing my entire workflow. Maybe theres a way you could autoswap the fields in script etc? I mean it must be readily apparent to even somewhat inexperienced computer user.
PS: im thinking maybe buttons that copy text to clipboard but that's not the most intuitive way

Answer 1

The helper class using IText:
import java.io.ByteArrayInputStream;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import com.lowagie.text.Document;
import com.lowagie.text.DocumentException;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfContentByte;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfImportedPage;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfReader;
import com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfWriter;
public class PDFHealer
   public static InputStream heal(InputStream in) throws DocumentException, IOException
      try
         ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream();
         PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(in);
         // we retrieve the total number of pages
         int n = reader.getNumberOfPages();
         // step 1: creation of a document-object
         Document document = new Document();
         // step 2: we create a writer that listens to the document
         PdfWriter writer = PdfWriter.getInstance(document, out);
         // step 3: we open the document
         document.open();
         // step 4: we add content
         PdfContentByte cb = writer.getDirectContent();
         int i = 0;
         while( i < n )
            document.newPage();
            i++;
            PdfImportedPage page1 = writer.getImportedPage(reader, i);
            cb.addTemplate(page1, 0, 0);
         // step 5: we close the document
         document.close();
         ByteArrayInputStream ret = new ByteArrayInputStream(out.toByteArray());
         out.close();
         return ret;
      finally
         in.close();