This is a major problem for me; whatever I try to copy, if I can manage to select it, doesn't paste anywhere else. This used to work easily; please fix it. Right now, my only workaround is to use a different software to open and use pdf files.

Hi,

The issue seems to lie in the structure of the document. The image, as you see is not a single image but a composite image of multiple images including a base image (without alphabetical markers) and individual images for every marker.
Scanners give a single image and not multiple images for a single page. So, how this image has been created like this is not known.
As far as copy is concerned, we can copy only the base image. Copy does not have the intelligence to group different images. Thus, we get a single image.

Workarounds:
You can use "copy with formatting" in this case (though that too has its own downsides once it OCRs the document).

Or else,the best workaround would be to export and import the file losslessly to/from png and then try copy/paste workflow. Steps below:
1. Launch Acrobat
2. Open the file
3. Go to Export PDF-> Image -> Png
4. Click Export and save the file
5. Open the exported .png file in Acrobat
6. Try Copying the image and paste it to word

Hope this helps!

Thanks,
Girija

Hi,

Apologies for the issue you are facing.
We have logged a bug regarding this at our end.
Our Engineering team will get back to you as soon as we have a solution handy.

Thanks for your patience and co-operation.

Regards,
Adobe Acrobat Team