[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Sat, 28 Oct 2000:
>does anybody know how I can extract the *complete* text from a PDF
>file from the Adobe Acrobat reader under W98?
There are 2 ways for converting PDF to TXT locally:
1. One solution is to use Acrobat Reader 4.0 with the
accessibility plug-in (ca. 1.2 MB, download from
"access.adobe.com"). This plug-in permits you to load a PDF
file into Acrobat and save it as .TXT or .HTM.
2. An even better solution (regarding program size and conversion
quality) is the programm "pdftotext" which is part of the
XPDF-package (a freeware PDF viewer for several operating
systems).
You need to download the following files (the DOS version
works under DOS and Win9x, the Win32 version only under
Win9x):
DOS: ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-dos.zip
(1298148 bytes) and
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/infozip/MSDOS/gzip124.exe
(119146 bytes)
Win32: ftp://ftp.foolabs.com/pub/xpdf/xpdf-0.90-win32.zip
(584326 bytes) and
http://www.gzip.org/gzip124xN.zip
(62203 bytes)
After unpacking, you only need 1 file from each of the
archives (either DOS or Win32):
pdftotext.exe (964341 bytes/DOS resp. 354304 bytes/Win32)
gzip.exe (39910 bytes/DOS resp. 91648 bytes/Win32)
Move these 2 files into a directory that is in your search
path (environment variable PATH= ...), enter the command
"pdftotext xyz.pdf", and within seconds you get an ASCII
text conversion result in the file "xyz.txt"! ("xyz" has to be
replaced by the real file name, of course.)
NOTE: While the Win32 version of "pdftotext.exe" is more
compact than the DOS version (which contains additional DOS
extender code), it does not work with the widespread DOS
version of "gzip.exe" as it needs gzip with long file name
support. Therefore make sure to use either both programs in
the DOS version or both in the Win32 version. (The DOS version
runs flawlessly on a Win32 plattform - it is just a bigger
EXE-file.)
- Wolfgang Redtenbacher
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