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It can be quite frustrating when you want to copy and edit text from a protected PDF file and you find that you can’t. Normally, you can use the text select tool in Adobe PDF reader to highlight and copy the text in a PDF document. I stumbled upon (no pun intended but feel free to click anyway ) this free solution when I wanted to copy some postage rates from a PDF file and found that the protected PDF document didn’t allow me to select any text or numbers. What’s up with that?

Anyway, what I did was to use the Snapshot Tool in Adobe PDF reader (It’s the camera icon), copied the text that I wanted to edit as an image and pasted it into Microsoft Office Document Imaging. Then, here’s the magic part, goto Tools > Recognize text using OCR and hey, presto you have editable text. Simply highlight the OCR’ed text and paste it into any word processor, like Open Office. You can then resave it as a PDF file in Open Office after editing. Easy!

I use the excellent Dean’s FCKEditor for Wordpress plugin to replace the default Wordpress text editor which is really crummy. However, one of the drawbacks of the FCKEditor is its image manager which does not automatically create image thumbnails when you upload pictures. The developers of FCKEditor has already decided not to include thumbnail creation ability, opting instead for CKFinder, is a commercial file manager plugin for FCKEditor.

Fortunately, there is a free image manager plugin for FCKEditor that can create thumbnails! Saulmade has made (pun intended) an open source image manager plugin that enables thumbnails to be autocreated from within FCKEditor. Use the link above to download the plugin or visit his site at http://www.saulmade.nl/ FCKeditor/FCKPlugins.php for more information. The installation instructions on Saulmade’s site is for general installations of FCKEditor. Installation of FCKEditor for Wordpress is slightly different.

I’ve included the installation instructions below for Dean’s FCKEditor for Wordpress plugin:

SETTING UP THE IMAGE MANAGER PLUGIN:

1. Extract the ImageManager folder from the zip file to the FCKEditor for Wordpress plugins directory. The folder should be copied to  /public_html/wp-content/plugins/fckeditor_for_wordpress/ fckeditor/editor/plugins/
   if you installed Wordpress to the root directory.
2. Edit the file ‘config.inc.php‘ in the ImageManager folder to configure the plugin. The config.inc.php file contains all the configuration settings for the image manager plugin such as where to store the thumbnails and images, thumbnail prefixes, whether eding and uploading is allowed, etc.
3. Edit the file ‘fckplugin.js‘ in the ImageManager folder to set the language for the plugin and to directEdit option. I’m not too sure what directEdit is for, so I left it as ‘false’.

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