On 27 Jan 01 at 0:00, Heimo Claasen wrote:
>>> Have you tried loading one of those co-processor emulators before the
>>> PDF2TEXT converter program...
>>The announcement said it's a "DOS" prog. So why should it need a math
>>coprocessor ?
To get the benefit of the extra computing "muscle". It might be
insufferably slow otherwise.
>>> I have a 6meg PDF of the manual for my Star Micronics printer
>>> that it converted to a 300K text file. Manually editing out the garbage
>>> and empty space dropped it below 200k.
>>And that's precisely the point: what's needed is a sheer text extractor, not
>>something that leaves you with lots of manual editing. Comparable to this
>>excellent HTML-stripper, HTMSTRIP.
Well, it is obvious (duh) that PDF is much more complex than HTML,
which is obviously pure text to begin with. All a stripper program
needs to do is identify the HTML tags and remove them during
conversion. Would that it were that simple with PDF.
>>BTW, the example mentioned is exemplary for the completely superfluous
>>use of that bloatware - hardly three per cent of "payload" in terms of
>>text contained.
I could not agree more, Heimo, and it was the grossest example I have
ever encountered in my personal experience. I am so glad that
PDF2TEXT works as well as it does. I am planning on opening the pdf
file in the Acrobat reader and the text file in a good text editor
and scroll through the PDF and add the truly necessary graphics to
the text file using standard ASCII characters. Then I will be able to
reclaim that 6 megs of HD space.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
I'm not crazy, I've just been in a very bad mood for 35 years.
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