Preview app allows me to select lines and words of text. However, when I copy and paste it into another app, empty characters are pasted.
For example, I select 3 rows of text and paste it, but 3 rows of empty text have been pasted.
On macOS Sierra with preview and the PDF files in question do not seem to be protected as I can both select text and choose Edit->Copy
.
What is this and how I can overcome this?
For example, I wanted to copy this
and I got this
As you can see, I did not get those weird characters that people get when copy from protected document.