Disable Copy & Paste in PDF

Prevent recipients from copying text and images from your PDF while allowing printing, editing, and form filling. This selective restriction stops text extraction and clipboard copying without affecting other document functionality. Perfect for protecting intellectual property, preventing plagiarism of written content, securing proprietary data in reports, and ensuring that sensitive text cannot be easily extracted and repurposed. When this protection is active, the copy, select-all, and text extraction functions are disabled in compliant PDF readers. Recipients can still read the document on screen, print it, and fill in any form fields. The content is visible but cannot be programmatically extracted. This is commonly used by publishers, researchers sharing pre-publication papers, companies distributing competitive analysis, and anyone who wants to let people read and print but not copy-paste content into other documents.