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Originally Posted by PandathePanda
What I do is to open the pdf then right click and select copy picture, if it's available. Else printscreen. Then paste it into onenote. Then right click on the picture and select copy text from picture.
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An easier way to extract all the images from a PDF (especially a "scan-PDF") is with xpdf's pdfimages
Get from
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
There may be a GUI way to do it, but the command line:
pdfimages book.pdf -j book
will create a series of images book001.jpg...
from the input file book.pdf.
Usually these will be jpegs, but if the images were bitmaps, it gives you ppm images.
You can convert those to png with e.g Irfanview if you can't read them directly.
This extracts the images as they are stored, so they aren't degraded by recompression.
On the original question; ABBYY Fineviewer is what I use, but it's Windows only.