Adobe Reader: Take a screenshot

With Adobe Reader you can take screenshots of your PDF files and copy individual areas. We show you how to do this.

PDF screenshots: Photograph documents with Adobe Reader

1. Open Adobe Reader and open the file from which you want to copy an area.
2. Go to "Edit" in the menu bar and select "Take a snapshot" from the drop-down list.
3. Now mark the area in the document that you want to copy. To do this, click and hold the left mouse button while defining the area.
4. The marked area is now on your clipboard as a graphic. You can then paste the screenshot into an image editing tool such as Paint or Gimp and save it.
5. You exit the screenshot mode with [Esc].