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How to preserve paragraph breaks when text copy from PDF and paste into Notepad?

For example when I copy text from PDF which has paragraph breaks like this:

xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx x xxxx xx
xxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxx x xxxxxxxx x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxx
xxxx xxxxxx

xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx x xxxx xx
xxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxx x xxxxxxxx x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxx
xxxx xxxxxx

but when i copy text from PDF and paste into Notepad, Word 2007 etc. output comes without paragraph breaks.

Like this:

xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx x xxxx xx
xxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxx x xxxxxxxx x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxx
xxxx xxxxxx
xxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxx x xxxx xx
xxxx xxxx xxxxxxxxxxx x xxxxxxxx x x xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxx xxx
xxxx xxxxxx

How to preserve paragraph breaks when text copy from PDF and paste into Notepad?

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rowan [ Admin ]

I tested this with Adobe Reader and couldn't find a way to get it to preserve the paragraph breaks and searched on Google and saw that other people have mentioned this problem. It seems a bit strange, but that might just be the way it is in Adobe Reader.

Foxit Reader appears to preserve the paragraph breaks. So that might be an option for you.

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planetpdf_85
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I tried Foxit reader also but same result. no paragraph breaks

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