OK, I've put together the following code: I make a selection of text in Acrobat Reader DC and then press F12. I then go to Notepad or MS Word and paste with ctrl-V. F12:: clipboard = ; clear the clipboard send ^C ClipWait Content := Clipboard WinGetText, AllText, ahk_class AcrobatSDIWindow WinGetTit...

Thanks for the suggestions, I'll try both of them. May be premature to ask as ihave not tested the code yet, but for my understanding: the first option looks at the window title, the second one does some com magic. Both retrieve the page number in the same way, but why do you add 1 to the page numbe...

Thanks for the quick reply Peter, PDF-Xchange Editor looks interesting, I'll have a closer look. Unfortunately, I'm illiterate in all programming languages except AHK and VBA.

I searched the forum, but could not find anything about this. I'm building a text summerizer tool. The idea is that you select a paragraph of text from a PDF file and then click on a button in a GUI. This will then copy the selected text and paste it into a txt document (sofar-so-good). The issue is...