PDF

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for document exchange. It is a useful system because it can represent documents independently of the application software, hardware, and operating system.

Teachers may want to sometimes include parts of PDF documents in Word documents (.doc format) - although they should be aware of the copyright implications.

One way to do this is to simply cut and paste the data - although this will depend on the security settings of the original document.

Another popular way is to use Koolwire.

Non-text PDF's
If you are presented with a document as an "image" rather than text you have two options scan it - which is not very high-tech or use a program called [http://nuancepdf.com/PDFReader/Main.aspx. Nuance PDF]. It really does allow you to convert PDF images into text electronically and gives good results.