PDF --> ASCII (was ACCMAIL Digest - 5 Feb 2003 to 10 Feb 2003 (#2003-19))

[Paul A. Crable]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:01:28 -0500, out of the primordial soup,
Automatic digest processor wrote:
>Dear AccMailers,
>I am desperate to get a PDF document converted to text
>and nothing seems to work. So far I have used...

I have Acrobat 5.0. On its tool bar is a button with a capital "T".
If I press the button, and then mark the text I want (or all of it
with CTRL-A) , then CTRL-C will copy the material to the clipbook as
ASCII text.

I then open a text file with, say, Notepad, and use CTRL-V to dump
the contents of the clipboard into the Notepad. The contents have
been converted to ASCII.

It's not very pretty but it works. Give it a try.

Paul

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