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I have a friend who is trying to copy a pdf file witch is written in Greek to microsoft world and the Greek fond changed to something i don't know how to explain it, :) not language anyway i hope you guys understand. :)

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Quick troubleshooting and practical steps for the Greek-PDF copy/paste problem reported by . As noted, conversion tools can help; below is how to decide what to do and why some copies look wrong.

First, diagnose whether the PDF contains real text or images. Try selecting a few words in any PDF viewer. If you cannot select text, the pages are images (a scan) and require OCR. If you can select text but pasted characters are wrong, the PDF is using fonts with a custom or non-Unicode encoding so the glyphs do not map to Unicode Greek.

To confirm encoding issues, open the PDF Document Properties and look at the Fonts list. Fonts shown as "Embedded" or "Embedded Subset" or with unusual names often indicate custom encoding. In that case, installing Greek fonts on your PC usually will not fix pasted text because the underlying character codes are wrong.

Recommended remedies, chosen by diagnosis:

  • Image (no selectable text): run OCR and set the language to Greek. OCR rebuilds text from glyph shapes and produces proper Unicode Greek.
  • Selectable but garbled text: try exporting the PDF to Word with a full-featured converter that preserves character mapping, or run OCR on the pages to regenerate Unicode text. Avoid simple copy/paste.

Practical checklist

  1. Try to select text to see which problem you have.
  2. Check Document Properties -> Fonts for embedded/subset fonts.
  3. Use an exporter or OCR tool that supports Greek (test on a 1–2 page sample first).
  4. After conversion, set Word to a Unicode font that contains Greek glyphs and proofread the result (OCR and conversions frequently need manual fixes).

Notes: OCR is not perfect—expect to correct accents, diacritics and punctuation. If the file is sensitive, avoid online converters and use a local tool with Greek language support.

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Hi there,

In Greek is not as easy as copying and pasting. You need a programme to convert pdf to word or the full version of acrobat.

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So with the full version of Acrobat it will work, or i still have to do something?

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That's right. I have the full version of Adobe Acrobat Reader and Adobe Acrobat Writter.
On the toolbar of both Word as well as Acrobat Writter, I get the option to "convert to pdf" or "convert to word" respectively.

I also suggest looking for free to download converters if this is a one-off case.

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