# Using the Clipboard

You can paste any image previously copied to the system wide clipboard into xyscan using the `Edit->Paste Image` menu command.

This is an especially powerful feature that allows you to grab plots from PDF documents, Power Point, Keynote, OpenOffice, and many other applications and copy/paste them directly into xyscan. In Acrobat Reader use the snapshot tool to copy an rectangle to the clipboard. Remember that the plot will appear in xyscan in exactly the same size as you see it in the Acrobat Reader so try to zoom in to enlarge it. The larger the plot the more precise the scan will be. Note that you can increase the size of the plot after loading it using the Plot Adjustments dialog (see Rotating and Scaling Plots).