Re: Copying text from a PDF

Leon Heller wrote:
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> It's not perfect, but I haven't got a CR after every character.
>
> I often extract text from PDFs whan creating PCB parts, and don't have many
> problems.
>
> Leon

Don'cha love it when the author turns off the "Text Copy" tool on the
document so you can't copy and paste? Why they do that is beyond me. You
could print as many copies as you wish, or make infinite copies on a
Xerox machine. Why make it difficult to copy a couple of lines of text?

Another moan is when the author uses some wierd font that produces
garbage characters when you paste into a text editor. I often end up
shrinking the editor to a small window that overlays the pdf file, and do
a manual copy.

Then there's the text in a scanned image format. No copying, no searches,
and it takes a lot of room on the disk.

Hopefully, in 50 years or so, paper will be found only in museums, and
everyone will have flexible electronic displays. Since there will be no
need to print anything, searches will be easy, and there won't be a need
to use special fonts or lock the document for any reason. Life will be
easy for engineers.

Sure...

Mike Monett
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