In my test of the website in question, for example, I was able to print to PDF and then select the desired text from the PDF to copy elsewhere.Īnother approach is to use File -> Save As… 1 in the browser when viewing the page, and save it “as” plain text.
If saving to PDF doesn’t meet your need, it’s possible the PDF is copy enabled. Certainly it has the highest “fidelity” in that it’ll include all the formatting and images exactly as the original webpage. Above board techniquesīy “above board”, I mean using normal website and browser behavior to gain access to text in ways the website owner perhaps hadn’t thought to prevent.
Website and other digital-content owners need to realize that if it can be seen, it can be copied. There are several techniques to copy text from websites trying to prevent it, including print to PDF, copying from that PDF, viewing the source of the webpage, disabling JavaScript, disabling CSS, or even taking photographs or screenshots and running those through OCR.
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