Join lines automatically using autohotkey - autohotkey

Question

Long paragraphs in Adobe Acrobat results in a line break when text is copied to clipboard and pasted in Word.
To deal with this, I manually paste the copied-text in Notepad ++ > select all > ctrl+J (join lines) > select all > Copy...... and then paste it into my Word document.
I would like to automate this join line using autohotkey as I have a large body of documents to go through. I can't seem to find any examples online in dealing with this directly within autohotkey script.
Ex.
Data structures with labeled axes supporting automatic or explicit data alignment.
This prevents common errors resulting from misaligned data and working with
differently-indexed data coming from different sources.
After manually joining in Notepad ++
Data structures with labeled axes supporting automatic or explicit data alignment. This prevents common errors resulting from misaligned data and working with differently-indexed data coming from different sources.

Answer 1

This works:
#Persistent
OnClipboardChange("ClipChanged")
return
ClipChanged() {
If (WinActive("ahk_exe AcroRd32.exe")) {
For e, v in StrSplit(clipboard, "`n", "`r")
x .= v " "
clipboard := trim(x)
}
}

Answer 2

Try this:
#Persistent
return
OnClipboardChange:
If WinActive("ahk_exe AcroRd32.exe")
{
clipboard =
Send, {Ctrl down}c{Ctrl up}{Esc}
ClipWait
clip := RegExReplace(clipboard, "(\S.*?)\R(.*?\S)", "$1 $2") ; strip line breaks and replace them with spaces
clipboard = %clip%
StringReplace clipboard, clipboard, % " ", % " ", A ; replace double spaces with single spaces
ClipWait
ControlClick, x0 y0, A
}
return
EDIT
Or this:
#Persistent
return
OnClipboardChange:
If WinActive("ahk_class AcrobatSDIWindow")
{
clipboard := ""
Send, {Ctrl down}c{Ctrl up}{Esc}
ClipWait
clip := RegExReplace(clipboard, "(\S.*?)\R(.*?\S)", "$1 $2") ; strip line breaks and replace them with spaces
StringReplace clip, clip, % " ", % " ", A ; replace double spaces with single spaces
clipboard := ""
clipboard = %clip%
ClipWait 2
If !(ErrorLevel)
{
ToolTip, lines joined
Sleep 500
ToolTip
}
}
return

Answer 3

I added functionality considering lines ending with a hyphen.
Before:
This occurs in elec-
tricity generation
systems.
After:
This occurs in electricity generation systems.
Code:
#Persistent
return
OnClipboardChange:
If WinActive("ahk_exe AcroRd32.exe")
{
clipboard := ""
Send, {Ctrl down}c{Ctrl up}{Esc}
ClipWait
clip := RegExReplace(clipboard, "(\S.*?)-\R(.*?\S)", "$1$2") ; strip line breaks with hyphen
clip := RegExReplace(clip, "(\S.*?)\R(.*?\S)", "$1 $2") ; strip line breaks and replace them with spaces
StringReplace clip, clip, % " ", % " ", A ; replace double spaces with single spaces
clipboard := ""
clipboard = %clip%
ClipWait 2
If !(ErrorLevel)
{
ToolTip, lines joined
Sleep 500
ToolTip
}
}
return