How to Copy text from a protected PDF with Google Drive The third alternative also takes advantage of another Google Service. Instead of the Web Browser, you’ll use Google Drive to do so.

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.

Let’s see how to do this. How to Highlight Text in PDF in Microsoft Edge. Launch the Microsoft Edge browser and then open a PDF file in it. When the PDF is opened, select some text for highlighting.