Extracting text with formatting from PDF - Page 2

nekokami · 02-28-2007, 05:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eimert

Hi,
you could also use pdaConverter (http://www.jakewalk.de/wiki/pmwiki.p...e.PdaConverter). It is freeware (Windows). I used it quite often for converting pdf files for reading on my palm - ages ago :-)
Cheers,
Klaus

Thanks... though I don't usually use windows and wasn't planning on reading this on a Palm or other PDA....

eimert · 03-01-2007, 05:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nekokami

Thanks... though I don't usually use windows and wasn't planning on reading this on a Palm or other PDA....

No, you misunderstood (or I didn't explain it well enough - English is not my first language). I should have said that I used it for converting pdf files to txt or html (for reading on my Palm), NOT to prc or pdb (for some reason I never liked Palm's eReader). So, you could use it for your purpose, too. Only Windows seems to be a problem there.

Cheers,
Klaus

NatCh · 03-01-2007, 09:43 AM

Oh. I had looked at the web page and decided that it only outputs PDB/PRC formats. So that's not correct, then? What formats does it output besides TXT and HTML (those would probably do well enough, but I'm just checking if there are others).

nekokami · 03-01-2007, 12:00 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by eimert

No, you misunderstood (or I didn't explain it well enough - English is not my first language). I should have said that I used it for converting pdf files to txt or html (for reading on my Palm), NOT to prc or pdb (for some reason I never liked Palm's eReader). So, you could use it for your purpose, too. Only Windows seems to be a problem there.

Cheers,
Klaus

Sorry Klaus, your English is fine! But when I looked at the website all I saw were palm formats as output. That was the source of my confusion. Thanks for the pointer!

micro · 03-04-2007, 06:25 AM

for the mac, have you tried the obvious? Preview?

I'd try cropping the PDF using the select tool and then crop (under tools). Do this to remove headers, footers, pages numbers etc etc etc. You should be able to reduce this to just your content only.

Then change tools and use the text tool, do a select all, and bingo, formatted text is in your clipboard. Paste into whatever app you want and it should work.

From here you can then massage it to however you want it to look.

This is how I do it using mac OS 10.4.8 anyhow,

good luck and if you need help, just ask,

micro

nekokami · 03-04-2007, 08:45 PM

micro, thanks for the suggestions. See posts #1 and #4 for why the copy/paste solution didn't work. See #5 for my experience with Preview.

Recently I realized that we have Acrobat Professional at my new job. I've already "solved" my problem by obtaining a differently formatted copy of this file, but I may try loading the original up into Acrobat Professional to see if I can get around the custom encoding that way.

yvanleterrible · 03-05-2007, 08:27 AM

Did you try the 'save as text' feature in Acrobat Reader? (I have'nt read all the posts)

nekokami · 03-05-2007, 09:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by yvanleterrible

Did you try the 'save as text' feature in Acrobat Reader? (I have'nt read all the posts)

"Save as text" produces junk output.

It's that *^&)#% custom encoding.

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03-01-2007, 09:43 AM	#18
NatCh Gizmologist Posts: 11,615 Karma: 929550 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Republic of Texas Embassy at Jackson, TN Device: Pocketbook Touch HD3	Oh. I had looked at the web page and decided that it only outputs PDB/PRC formats. So that's not correct, then? What formats does it output besides TXT and HTML (those would probably do well enough, but I'm just checking if there are others).

03-04-2007, 06:25 AM	#20
micro Connoisseur Posts: 62 Karma: 202 Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Taebaek, South Korea Device: STAReBOOK STK-101	for the mac, have you tried the obvious? Preview? I'd try cropping the PDF using the select tool and then crop (under tools). Do this to remove headers, footers, pages numbers etc etc etc. You should be able to reduce this to just your content only. Then change tools and use the text tool, do a select all, and bingo, formatted text is in your clipboard. Paste into whatever app you want and it should work. From here you can then massage it to however you want it to look. This is how I do it using mac OS 10.4.8 anyhow, good luck and if you need help, just ask, micro

03-04-2007, 08:45 PM	#21
nekokami fruminous edugeek Posts: 6,745 Karma: 551260 Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Northeast US Device: iPad, eBw 1150	micro, thanks for the suggestions. See posts #1 and #4 for why the copy/paste solution didn't work. See #5 for my experience with Preview. Recently I realized that we have Acrobat Professional at my new job. I've already "solved" my problem by obtaining a differently formatted copy of this file, but I may try loading the original up into Acrobat Professional to see if I can get around the custom encoding that way.

03-05-2007, 08:27 AM	#22
yvanleterrible Reborn Paper User Posts: 8,616 Karma: 15446734 Join Date: May 2006 Location: Que Nada Device: iPhone8, iPad Air	Did you try the 'save as text' feature in Acrobat Reader? (I have'nt read all the posts)

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