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Unfortunately, nothing is returned.

As an interim solution, I have created a macro in Keyboard Maestro.
It pastes the clipboard into TextEdit and then copies the pasted text back to the clipboard.
Not elegant, but fast.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Bill

This is the result (whether 1 char or the entire PDF is copied)


REVO5500
{\rtf1\mac {\colortbl;\red0\green0\blue0;}
\pard
}

Thanks
Bill

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