There are few things worse than trying to copy a string of text from a PDF, only to find that you can't highlight any text at all. Thankfully, bypassing a locked PDF is easy enough to do on Mac.

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Microsoft Edge provides a feature to highlight text in PDF and save highlighted PDF to your PC. This post shows you how to to highlight and save PDF using Edge.