I opened it in Adobe Acrobat Pro and the regular text selection tool had the same obfuscated result. However, when I used the text edit tool, I was able to sele

I opened it in Adobe Acrobat Pro and the regular text selection tool had the same obfuscated result. However, when I used the text edit tool, I was able to select the text and copy/paste it elsewhere and the text remained intact. I'm on the fence about whether the obfuscation is intentional, or if the legal software that was used to format and generate the line numbers is just bad at encoding PDFs. Edit: I looked at the metadata for the two files and the borked one was generated with PDFium, the same open source PDF library that google and many others use. The normal one was created with Acrobat Distiller and signed by iText and mentions a license to the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. The metadata could have been altered, but a first glance suggests the working one is the original.