Copy and paste but only a few words per line.

Some webpages look like what follows when you copy and paste them. Why
is that? Do they do it so people won't copy and paste? They could, I
gather, prevent copying altogehter, so maybe this is a compromise, so
people who really want the text can get it??


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micky wrote:
Some webpages look like what follows when you copy and paste them. Why
is that? Do they do it so people won't copy and paste? They could, I
gather, prevent copying altogehter, so maybe this is a compromise, so
people who really want the text can get it??


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It's from a PDF document.

https://techinfo.toyota.com/techInfo...starttinfo.pdf

Don't ask me what they used to extract the text.
Copy/paste of this, didn't work all that well.

https://s1.postimg.org/1bipzrgr4v/from_the_manual.gif

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micky wrote:

Some webpages look like what follows when you copy and
paste them. Why is that?

Formatting. Usually a limited click-and-drag before copying
works. Or you can try saving the page. Unfortunately, saving
webpages is a hit and miss operation, even more so the way it
used to be.

If necessary, you can take a screenshot. My notes file using
WordPad allows the inclusion of pictures.

And of course you can bookmark the page and hope it is there
when you need it.

On Tue, 24 Oct 2017 22:15:00 -0400, micky
wrote:


Some webpages look like what follows when you copy and paste them. Why
is that? Do they do it so people won't copy and paste? They could, I
gather, prevent copying altogehter, so maybe this is a compromise, so
people who really want the text can get it??


Sometimes pasting into Notepad allows rapid adjustment of text before
the final destination.

Or open a web page in Acrobat "Create PDF from Web page" and save this
as a Word document.

micky wrote:

Some webpages look like what follows when you copy and paste them. Why
is that? Do they do it so people won't copy and paste? They could, I
gather, prevent copying altogehter, so maybe this is a compromise, so
people who really want the text can get it??

You are copying the HTML code from the web page, not just the text. The
web browser renders HTML code. It is not a text editor.

Some webpages? That says NOTHING about which web page (give a URL) or
what web browser and version of it that you are using. Some web
browsers support Reader mode which strips out much of the HTML of a web
page (but not all). If the site supports Read View mode then click on
the button in the web browser to switch to that view.

You could install a PDF printer (emulates a printer but output goes to a
..pdf file) and print the web page to a .pdf file. Open the PDF in
whatever PDF viewer you installed and see if it lets you copy the
selected text into the Windows clipboard.

Some web browsers have a built-in screenshot facility although
extensions usually offer more options on how to capture a web page.
Some add-ons perform a different "reader mode" by stripping out all
context other than text; i.e., you just see the text. You might be able
to copy and paste that content as text as long as the HTML code
remaining to perform the formatting is not included in the clip.

There are clipboard managers that go beyond what the Windows clipboard
can do. They can save the clip under different formats: text, HTML,
image. You can then pick which to use when you paste elsewhere although
the clipboard manager will usually determine what output format to use
depending on the program into which the clip gets pasted. Another
choice is to stop using the Windows Ctrl+V to paste a clip. If the clip
contains HTML, which is likely when copying from a web page, the clip
will also contain HTML. If you want to ensure that nothing but text
with no formatting gets pasted, there are clipping enhancers to do that
(e.g., https://stevemiller.net/puretext/).

You could look at the source code of a web page, copy that, and after
pasting then edit out all the HTML code. Oh joy.