David Hobby wrote: > Deborah Harrell wrote: > > > > in birthrate) [pg 512; this is a pdf file and I was > > unable to copy the paragraphs I wanted - I'm sure I > > will be quite chagrined when someone points out to me > > the simple way of doing this <sigh> (instead of > > highlighting the text I wanted, mouseclicking made the > > hand symbol move the 'page,' and I couldn't disable > > the 'hand' at the toolbar) :P ]: > > A simple way? I don't count buying a real > copy of Adobe Acrobat simple. There is free software > to recover text from .pdf files (if they are not scanned > in). I've used it, but it removes most of the formatting > too. Here's a web-based program: > http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html > > If there's a better way, I'd like to know too. >
Use OCR programming. First you have to find a conversion program on the web that converts pdf to anything else graphic, there are a few out there but it's been too long since I've done this so I don't know where to look. Then start up the OCR. I'm using the one from Corel, but other OCR programs are just as fine, as long as you can load a graphics file in them. Then load the adobe file you want to copy stuff from and convert it to text. You can do whatever you like to it after that. This is a bit of a work around but doable if you really need the text. Once you figured out exactly how to do it, it is simple to repeat the proces time and again. Of course buying the original Adobe is probably faster and much more convenient. If you cannot find a conversion, print the Adobe file and scan it, then use the OCR from the scanner to convert it to text. Sonja GCU How to work with limited budgets. As long as the budget for software is low, nobody seems to mind the manhours and use of material invested in the work-arounds you need to develop to not go over severely limited budgets. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
