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Originally Posted by sivalesvaleo
Hey guys, I'm seriously considering the Edge. I research extensively and would like to replace my 150-pages-of-pdfs-a-week habit with the Edge. From the videos, I see the annotation and highlighting features, but I have not seen a demo of the copy-and-paste feature. What I need, and it is really a deal breaker, is the ability to highlight at least 4-5 lines of text from a non-DRM pdf (Google book, for example), copy that text to the Edge's clipboard, and paste it in a document or email. Can the Edge do this? Does it do it well? What is the capacity of the copy-and-paste software? Can it handle 10, 15, 20 lines of text? Thanks in advance!
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Well, I don't know the capability - but I just tried copying and pasting ~20 lines of text to the notepad and it worked great! The biggest problem with pdfs from Google books is that they are image files, not text. So, you can't highlight the text. Now, I have seen many books there with two download options, pdf and ePub. The ePub *is* a text format, via OCR, and you can highlight those texts (it's what I just copied/pasted from, a Google books ePub file). Also, I believe most of the books in Gutenberg are also OCR text.
I just tried to copy/paste with one of the image pdfs from Google books that I have (on my pc with Adobe 8.1) and it didn't work, either. It also could not search for a word in the document. So, the eDGe is not more limited than Adobe for these image pdfs. Well, except that I haven't been able to get the eDGe to display the images (illustrations) that are in the pdfs. Tech support is working on it.