Just about any type of text that can be copied to the Windows clipboard from an application can be pasted into AutoCAD as mtext.
McSwain: We don't have Bluebeam to test the insertion of text into that application, but this tipster certainly makes a good point regarding the insertion of text from other programs into AutoCAD. I presently use Bluebeam Revu R13, and AutoCAD Architecture 2013.
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There’s also a PDF import plugin for OpenOffice. See, e.g., calibre (which can convert to RTF format), pdftohtml/pdfreflow, or the AbiWord word processor (with all import/export plugins enabled).
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I hope this helps folks who regularly use both platforms, as I do. There is free software that can be used to extract text from PDFs with some of formatting intact, but again, don’t expect perfect results. If you need to translate text that is in the original PDF, you can either select the text and copy and paste it into a text box, then follow the translation process above. Choose the original language and the language you’d like to translate to, then click OK. In older versions of Reader, select Edit > Take A Snapshot, then select the Camera icon to take. To translate markups, go to Document > Translate Markups. Paste text into a plain-text editor or a Word document to edit it. Paste images into another document or image-editing program. Paste Right click (Mac: Ctrl+Click) or use keyboard shortcuts to paste the copied or cut pages in the same. Move Right click (Mac: Ctrl+Click) or use keyboard shortcuts to cut the selected pages. However, the opposite is also true inserting AutoCAD mtext into Bluebeam inserts the text as a text box, and can also be manipulated in Bluebeam as such. Open the PDF in Adobe Reader DC, use the Select tool on the menu bar to choose an image or text, then select Edit > Copy. Using Right Click (Mac: Ctrl+Click) Copy Right click (Mac: Ctrl+Click) or use keyboard shortcuts to copy the selected pages. It is inserted into AutoCAD as mtext and can be manipulated as usual. Text created using a Bluebeam text box can be copied into AutoCAD with a simple Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V, greatly saving duplicate typing time.
If you use both AutoCAD and Bluebeam Revu, a PDF markup software package, this tip from Michael W. All you have to do is to copy the symbol from somewhere like a web page or the character map for windows users, and head over to where you need the symbol (say in Word.