If you would like to use information found in a PDF, but aren't able to copy and paste the one part you need, consider converting the entire document to Word, and formatting it just as you want. It's easy and will save you a lot of time.
I think that it would be good for pre-reading activities (eg. predicting, introduction of vocab etc). It may also be good for writing if you give students the words and they have to make a story from them... It could be a game...first team to write a paragraph, story (correctly), using the most words etc...
Fun, fun, Fun!