Re: OT: Copying text from a PDF

On Fri, 03 Jun 2005 08:40:34 +0100, Terry Pinnell wrote:

> Rich Grise <richgrise@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>>Click "Download" to get to http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html ,
>>then scroll down to "Precompiled binaries" and it's probably either
>>xpdf-3.00pl3-win32.zip (1142558 bytes) for Win32 or
>>xpdf-3.00pl3-dos6.zip (1775202 bytes) for DOS.
> [snip useful extract]
>
> Thanks, got it, and it works a treat. Particularly impressed with its
> speed. Glad you introduced me to it.

Actually, I don't deserve credit for it at all - it was someone else,
just up-thread a bit ... Matt Roberds, in <l9dne.38478$Gp.36280@fed1read04>.

> Mind you, I'm never too keen on leaving the GUI and getting into a DOS
> Command Prompt window <g>. Seem to be two ways of doing it:
>
> 1) Open the DOS window in the XPDF program folder and then (assuming
> defaults are OK) enter:
>
> pdftotext "D:\long path\probably with some blanks\so needs
> quotes\filename.pdf"
>
> 2) Open the DOS window in the folder containing the PDF file and
> enter:
>
> "D:\Program Files\xpdf-3.00pl3\pdftotext" filename.pdf
>
> Am I right? Any other methods?

Danged if I know. I'm using Linux, so I just open a console window or
a one-line command line ("Run Command" in Kde) and type "xpdf filename.pdf".
You could probably do that with Doze Start/Run... (type command as above).
I can open xpdf all by itself, but it seems to not have any menus - they
seem to have put their programming effort into actually getting the job
done. :-) I'm sure I could make it more automatic by tweaking my menus
and my file browser and stuff, but for the number of times I need to
actually copy/paste text from a pdf, it's not worth the effort.

You do know that if you have your folder options set to "display full
path in address bar" in windows explorer, that you can copy and paste the
full path without typing the whole dang thing?

Cheers!
Rich

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