Re: OT: Copying text from a PDF

On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:20:40 GMT, mroberds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>Terry Pinnell <terrypinDELETE@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>Rich Grise <richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>Click "Download" to get to http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html ,
>>>[...]
>>
>>Glad you introduced me to it.
>
>Ahem...
>
>>Am I right? Any other methods?
>
>3 and 4 let you just type "pdftotext" no matter what directory you're
>in:
>
>3) Put "D:\Program Files\xpdf-3.00pl3\" in your $PATH.
>
>4) Copy pdftotext.exe to c:\windows or c:\winnt (which are already in
> your $PATH).
>
>5) Install the "Command Prompt Here" powertoy (Google it) which will
> allow you to navigate to the folder in Exploder, then get a command
> prompt starting in that directory.
>
>6) format c:, then install Linux or FreeBSD. Caution: this process may
> lose data.
>
>Matt Roberds

As you seem familiar with the product, and to save me downloading and testing to
find out, would you consider it - or part of the suite - might work on the
following:

..pdf file, 100MB, all text (a large database snapshot printout)

Security settings of note:
.. Printing - fully allowed
.. Content copying or extraction - not allowed
.. Content accessibility enabled - allowed

I don't want to print 22930 pages and run them through the OCR machine :-(
.

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