On Windows 11, the Copilot app isn’t a fully standalone PDF reader. Under the hood, it depends on the Microsoft Edge WebView2 runtime and its built-in PDF engine to extract text from your documents.
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You can allow or block Microsoft Edge from opening PDF files externally by changing some settings using Registry Editor or Group Policy Editor in Windows 11/10. In this post, we will show you how to ...