# Feature Request: Simple Paste from pdf

**URL:** <https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-simple-paste-from-pdf/8179>\
**Category:** Features\
**Created:** [24 April 2020 17:44 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-simple-paste-from-pdf/8179 "2020-04-24T17:44:34Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Mixpap](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4da419/32.png) [@Mixpap](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/Mixpap)\
**Post date:** [24 April 2020 17:44 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-simple-paste-from-pdf/8179/1 "2020-04-24T17:44:34Z")

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Hi,  
there is a nice plugin for the atom text editor called notes from the pdf ([https://atom.io/packages/notes-from-pdf](https://atom.io/packages/notes-from-pdf)) which gives a new “paste” keybind which pastes text copied from a PDF document and It performs the following steps on incoming text:

- Replace line breaks with spaces
- Repair line-break hyphenations
- Trim whitespace from start and end
- Change typographers’ quotes/apostrophes to regular ones and replace double-quotes with single-quotes

I use Joplin for note taking from academic papers and books so I copy-paste a lot from pdfs and then I spend some time trimming whites paces and line brakes. I think is a very useful and easy implemented feature which can save time for many people.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![manouchk](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex028/user_avatar/discourse.joplinapp.org/manouchk/32/6505_2.png) [@manouchk](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/u/manouchk)\
**Post date:** [3 November 2021 17:20 UTC](https://discourse.joplinapp.org/t/feature-request-simple-paste-from-pdf/8179/2 "2021-11-03T17:20:06Z")

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This is interesting. While there is no plugin for that in Joplin, I share this interesting and powerful tool based on tesseract that does ocr from screenshot:  
[https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/](https://danpla.github.io/dpscreenocr/)