On Sat, Mar 31, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Jeff Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: > I need to convert 300 identical PDF's (different information in the same > fields) to text. What is the best way to go about this? Is there a > product on the market that does this efficiently? IOW takes all pdfs in > a folder and converts them to text with a .txt extension in on process?
If you have a Linux/Unix/OSX box handy, or CygWin installed on your Windows box, the commandline pdftotext will do the conversion. However, as the manual page notes, "Some PDF files contain fonts whose encodings have been mangled beyond recognition. There is no way (short of OCR) to extract text from these files." -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/cacw6n4skjbp7c3xybm6gb20e+vdecxu8mabghjdk3oypdrr...@mail.gmail.com ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
