PDF Select and Copy:
Hi:
There are various ways, but here's a fast and easy one that seems to work with all versions of Adobe Acrobat:
Go to the Edit menu, and click on "Select All."
Go to the Edit menu AGAIN, and click on "Copy."
Now open a graphics-friendly word processor such as Microsoft Word or OpenOffice's Writer. Go to the Edit menu, and click on "Paste." This will paste the entire contents of the PDF file into a Word (or other word processor) document. The formatting of the PDF may get messed up a bit, but it's not a problem for our purposes here.
Once you have the elements of the PDF copied and pasted into a Word document, it's a simple matter to cut-and-paste stuff out of that document into other documents or whatever. If you want to copy a picture out of the Word document, just right-click on it and select "Copy," then go to whatever you want to paste it into, go to that application's Edit menu, and select "Paste."
This is a simple method that usually works fine, and it does not depend on having the latest, greatest version of Acrobat Reader. Hope it helps.