On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 10:00 PM, Christiaan Hofman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
>
> On 11 Mar 2008, at 9:32 PM, OrgDork DotOrg wrote:
>
> > On 11 Mar 2008, at 8:41 PM, Michael Singer wrote:
> >>
> >>> What are people using to extract text from notes in the most
> >>> readable
> >>> form -- i.e., with spaces reinserted between words, etc.?
> >>>
> >>> Is there any way of restoring the text to its pre-PDF encoding state
> >>> from the note files that removes the hassle of spell-checking?
> >
> >
> > On 3/11/08 3:56 PM, "Christiaan Hofman" wrote:
> >
> >> What do you mean? I haven't got a clue what you're asking.
> >
> >
> > He's talking about a common occurrence that I have as well -- a
> > function of
> > the PDF, not of Skim -- in that notes, made by, for example,
> > highlighting,
> > do not have spaces between words. All the
> > lettersareruntogether,likeso.
> >
>
> I see. I never encountered it. I guess I'm just lucky.
>
> > What I try, since you asked how people are dealing, is the
> > following, listed
> > in increasing annoyance/time/complexity.
> >
> > a) look for any invisible character that is there...sometimes
> > there is
> > and that's the Best Case...then you just replace.
> >
>
> Any idea what kind of characters you get? Perhaps we could replace
> them automatically.
>
> > b) try Preview, which I know is also PDFKit, but it sometimes
> > does get
> > the text right, while Skim does not. (Built on PDFKit, but still a
> > separate
> > program with its own code, and there must be something Apple is
> > doing...perhaps even outside the PDFKit framework.)
> >
>
> That's strange. So are you talking about copying text? Skim there just
> leaves that to PDFKit. It is possible that Preview does something
> else, because it does indeed override the Copy action. For automatic
> selection (the initial value of a note based on selected text and for
> highlights) Skim does some post-processing, to replace multiple spaces
> and newlines by single (normal) spaces. That should rather fix this
> problem than make it worse.
>
> Perhaps someone could send me a sample file off-list, so I can see if
> I can improve the situation.
>
> Christiaan
>
>
I got some samples. Unfortunately this is not something Skim could fix. The
spaces simply are not there. In both samples I saw Preview gives the same
problems, which is what I would expect.
Christiaan
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