How to cut and paste

When I select text, press Command-C, then in another document press Command-V, all I get pasted are dots! How do I cut and paste text?

Hello,

It sounds like you are using a scanned PDF, can you use the OCR Tool and see if it helps:

https://help.kamihq.com/the-ocr-tool-and-split-and-merge-tool/the-ocr-tool