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.

How To Copy Text Using Google Lens To copy text with Google Lens, open the Google app on your phone and tap the camera icon to access Google Lens.

Google has released a new feature for Lens that lets you copy text from paper and paste it directly to your computer — no need for any manual transcribing.

OCRmyPDF is a free command line tool for adding searchable and copyable text to any PDF file.