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There is a way to deal with this problem, though it's only slightly less cumbersome than reorganizing every other line of text.
The full version of Acrobat has a function called "Crop Pages" (under the "Document" menu). This allows you to trim any or all sides of a page to suit. Using Crop Pages, you can:
1. Crop the right page away, and be left with the left page and text only.
2. Copy left page and paste into text app.
3. Back in the Acrobat menu, execute either Edit, Undo, or File, Revert, to recover right page. (Undo will return you to the page you just cropped, while Revert will take you back to the beginning of the doc.)
4. Repeat steps 1-3 to remove left page and copy right page.
5. Have a drink, and keep going 'til you're done.
(Note: You can trim ALL right pages automatically at once and do your copy-paste, then ALL left pages at once and copy-paste, but you'll want to paste left and right page text into separate files, then stitch them together into a new file. If your pasted text gives you convenient breaks, this might not be as bad as it sounds...)
I know, it ain't much of a solution (in my job I often have to use this to copy PDF pages set in columns into a text or HTML app, and it can suck). But it does beat copying and pasting one line at a time, especially with a large text.
Another possibility:
1. Using the same crop tools, create your left pages and right pages, and save each file.
2. Use the Advanced, Page Number controls to change the page numbers of one of the docs, say, adding the letter "a" to each page number, and save it.
3. Import one file into the other at the beginning or end (using Document, Insert Pages).
4. Then you (brace yourself) use the Pages View window to reorganize the pages by dragging and dropping. Use the original numbers of one (1, 2, 3) and the prefixes of the second (a1, a2, a3) to make combining them visually easier (1, a1, 2, a2, 3, a3).
Another lousy method, but when you're done, you can copy and paste the thing into a text app without having to reorganize.
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