Re: OT: Copying text from a PDF

budgie wrote: 
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 :-(

Elsewhere I suggested creating a virtual postscript printer. I have done this myself. _Anything_ that will let me print can be directed to that printer and thus to a file. It can then converted with Ghost script to other forms.

Ted
.

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