In my day job, I do Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) work. Most of it involves PDFs of the standards that the trading partner uses, and more often than I would like, I see the PDFs containing sample data (which in an ideal world are actual text data, because we have to send them through a process called "translation" that takes ASCII and little else as input.)
Adobe Reader - at least the version I have - has a menu option under File which is "Save as Other..." and the only option is Text. And it does! It saves the PDF as a text document. What a Godsend. I do not know when this started, but there's a special place in heaven for the person who came up with this function to Adobe Reader. On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:04 AM Walter Underwood <[email protected]> wrote: > I got it from somebody else. Before I heard this, I said that PDF is where > text goes to die. > > wunder > K6WRU > Walter Underwood > CM87wj > http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog) > > > On Feb 26, 2020, at 6:46 AM, Chris R. NW6V <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Walter, > > > > Bravo!. :-) I'm going to steal this line... :-) > > > > 73 Chris NW6V > > > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:09:02 -0800 AM <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> "Turning a PDF back into structured text is like turning hamburger back > >> into a cow." > >> > >> > >> > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Elecraft mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > Message delivered to [email protected] > > ______________________________________________________________ > Elecraft mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > Message delivered to [email protected] > -- 72, Rich Hurd / WC3T / DMR: 3142737 Northampton County RACES, EPA-ARRL Public Information Officer for Scouting Latitude: 40.761621 Longitude: -75.288988 (40°45.68' N 75°17.33' W) Grid: *FN20is* ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to [email protected]
