Version: 0.9 (using 4.3.00 (KDE 4.3.0) "release 158", KDE:KDE4:Factory:Desktop / openSUSE_11.1) Compiler: gcc OS: Linux (i686) release 2.6.27.29-0.1-default When text in table in a pdf is copied in either mode,the order of text is random and some text is lost and the separation between text is also got wrong.(I am bassing on OpenOffice behaviour) The same text copied in kpdf works fine(as expected) with OpenOffice. this bug may be related to bug 184399.
I believe this is a duplicate of bug 168953 .
I'm marking this as fixed, Okular 4.8 will include a new text layouting algorithm and it will also include a "Copy text from table" mode, so you'll be able to make sure the text extraction works fine.
Forgot to say that if after updating to KDE 4.8 you don't get the behaviour you expected please reopen the bug.