On Mar 02, 2014, at 10:07, BeeRich <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a PDF that has a chart in it. I want to turn it into some real data
> as the pdf is pretty much useless to me. Upon copying a page of cells, I
> want to parse that into tab delimited text in BBEdit, but the cells wrap and
> I have a list of values instead. Here's a chunk:
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Hey There,
Use a text-filter.
#! /usr/bin/env perl
use strict; use warnings;
while (<>) {
chomp;
print;
if ($. % 8 != 0) {
print "\t";
} else {
print "\n";
}
}
Give it a keyboard shortcut if you use it often.
There's a little command-line tool called pdftotext that might help you to
automate this further if desired.
http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/packages/
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Best Regards,
Chris
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