RE: Extracting Text from Acrobat File

[Cindy Hudson <chudson -at- ECS-INC -dot- com>]

Thanks all for the many suggestions, on list and off. At this point, I've
concluded the file is not fixable since I've tried every idea offered. At
least I don't have to retype it.  :-)

On the bright side, I did get to play with Ghostscript. While it didn't
solve this problem, it did help with an unrelated one on a different file.
Thanks, Seth, for suggesting it.

Cindy 


On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:53:29 -0400, Cindy Hudson <chudson -at- ecs-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> Good morning, all (or whatever time of day you may be in)
> 
> Sales has given me a pdf file of a large table to turn back into text. 
> (Because, of course, they didn't save the original file.) While I've 
> done that before, this one is a stumper. Acrobat sees only the header 
> as text. I can't use either of the text selection tools to highlight 
> anything else. Exporting as rtf gets me a large graphic. Exporting as 
> txt picks up only the header.
> 
> Any ideas on fixing this other than thumping the sales guy for not 
> saving the original Word file?
>



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