On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 00:30:31 +0200, Wolfgang Enzinger wrote:
> Am Mon, 4 Jul 2011 14:45:07 -0700 (PDT) schrieb ceekayCK:
> > unfortunately send me a .doc file
>
> You're at a loss there. Your friend could as well print this file and send
> you the printer output, essentially that would make no difference.
>
> A .doc file is basically a load of printer instructions, but generally it
> doesn't hold any structured data. The latter, however, is what a database
> needs and is made for.
You are mistaking .doc for .pdf. .doc (Microsoft Word Document) is editable
and it's easily possible (using Microsoft Word or Libre Office Writer) to
copy text out of it.
And in fact, it's usually possible to copy text even from .pdf. That is just
print instructions, but because those (unless it is scanned image) are like
"print these letters using that font", the viewer is usually able to extract
the text from it.
--
Jan 'Bulb' Hudec <b...@ucw.cz>
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