At 02:10 PM 2/1/2009, gerald wrote: >it is a document of public record the FannieMae 10Q(quarterly report). i >presume it is made with Adobe software as the feds have long been a big >supporter and user of the pdf format and usually do not allow funny programs >into house. > >i cannot imagine they would lock it. however, when i try to do cut and paste >in foxpro, the cut and paste are sort of beiged out. > >i tried to open the document in photoshop and security wanted the "master >password" so i guess the document is locked.
Some/many .pdf files are scanned, and therefore total bitmaps. There is no text information in them at all. If you want to extract text information from the .pdf file, the only recourse is to OCR it. Some OCR programs will process a .pdf file directly. Or, as someone else has said, you could print the document and then scan/OCR the paper copy. OmniPage Pro is stated to have the capability to OCR .pdf files directly, but I've never tried to do that. I have used OminPage Pro OCR in conjunction with scanning a paper document, although not recently. Kleptomania 2.6 from http://www.structurise.com/ is a program (systray utility) for OCRing small amounts of text. But it has to "learn" the fonts that it will be OCRing. So if the .pdf document uses a font that isn't installed on your computer, you will not get good results. I use Kleptomania occasionally to capture (copy) error messages when the Windows copy command doesn't work. Structurise has been in business for a long time. I have Kleptomania 1.0 from 1998. All of the above only for making legal copies, of course. Fred Holmes ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
