I don't know why you think divorce attorneys are stupid. Some are probably very well versed in tech; those who aren't know others who are. They won't simply sit

I don't know why you think divorce attorneys are stupid. Some are probably very well versed in tech; those who aren't know others who are. They won't simply sit there and think "oh, for some reason I can't copy-paste from that PDF, better give up the case then". ... And most attorneys simply print documents. Once the PDF is on paper, OCR-ing it back into text is just one scanner away.