Exporting text from recalcitrant PDFs

Subject: Exporting text from recalcitrant PDFs
From: "Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>
To: "Techwr-l" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2007 13:38:58 -0400

The PDF I dealt with was not locked, but it was still uncooperative.



I resorted to a feature called "OCR Text Recognition," which allowed me
to proceed, but the going was kind of brutal.



The text I managed to extract was garbled. If I sent that along, the
recipients would have said, What the heck is this?



Therefore, I formatted the whole thing by hand, which I didn't want to
do. I spent the better part of a day on this "small" task.



I can see more tasks coming down the pike where people want data
extracted from PDFs.



I believe I need to learn more about this. Hints, tips, suggestions
would be appreciated.





Craig Cardimon

Technical Writer

Marketing Systems Group

www.m-s-g.com

ccardimon -at- m-s-g -dot- com

267-558-3155



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