Does anyone know of a good freeware PDF to Text conversion program? It
doesn't have to extract images etc. All I need is just the text. I prefer a
GUI program because I'm not very good at using command line programs.

Thanks in advance.

Bob

"litefoot" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Does anyone know of a good freeware PDF to Text conversion program? It

Adobe's reader will save to a number of different formats. Load your PDF,
click SAVE AS, then click on the dropdown box with the file types and select
your poison.



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"ceg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> "litefoot" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:Xns981670884F0B0litefoottelbotnet@207.115.17.102...
>> Does anyone know of a good freeware PDF to Text conversion program?
>> It
>
> Adobe's reader will save to a number of different formats. Load your
> PDF, click SAVE AS, then click on the dropdown box with the file types
> and select your poison.
>

Thanks but I guess I don't have the correct version of Adobe Reader. Mine
is 6.0.25 and it doesn't have a 'SAVE AS' option, only 'Save a Copy' and
the only format option there is .PDF.

I can use 'Select Text Tool', hilite some text, save it to the clipboard
and paste it into a .txt file but I was hoping for a program that would
convert the whole .PDF file to ANSI text.

If I'm not looking in the right place or have an outdated version of
Adobe Reader please let me know.

Thanks again.

Bob

"litefoot" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "ceg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>
>> "litefoot" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:Xns981670884F0B0litefoottelbotnet@207.115.17.102...
>>> Does anyone know of a good freeware PDF to Text conversion program?
>>> It
>>
>> Adobe's reader will save to a number of different formats. Load your
>> PDF, click SAVE AS, then click on the dropdown box with the file types
>> and select your poison.
>>
>
> Thanks but I guess I don't have the correct version of Adobe Reader. Mine
> is 6.0.25 and it doesn't have a 'SAVE AS' option, only 'Save a Copy' and
> the only format option there is .PDF.
>
> I can use 'Select Text Tool', hilite some text, save it to the clipboard
> and paste it into a .txt file but I was hoping for a program that would
> convert the whole .PDF file to ANSI text.
>
Edit\ Select All\ Copy to clipboard...Then paste it into Word.

"beenthere" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> Edit\ Select All\ Copy to clipboard...Then paste it into Word.
>

That will do what I need. Thanks to all.

Bob

"litefoot" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "ceg" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>
>> "litefoot" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:Xns981670884F0B0litefoottelbotnet@207.115.17.102...
>>> Does anyone know of a good freeware PDF to Text conversion program?
>>> It
>>
>> Adobe's reader will save to a number of different formats. Load your
>> PDF, click SAVE AS, then click on the dropdown box with the file types
>> and select your poison.
>>
>
> Thanks but I guess I don't have the correct version of Adobe Reader. Mine
> is 6.0.25 and it doesn't have a 'SAVE AS' option, only 'Save a Copy' and
> the only format option there is .PDF.

I have 6.0.



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On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:51:25 GMT, litefoot <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>"beenthere" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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>
>>
>> Edit\ Select All\ Copy to clipboard...Then paste it into Word.
>>
>
>That will do what I need. Thanks to all.

It would only if the original PDF text is in one column. If you have 2
columns or more, it wont work.

>
>Bob

IT <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in news:kh1ad2ld3uk796p3l8k9bvq58e1gcnj13j@
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> On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:51:25 GMT, litefoot <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:
>
>>"beenthere" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
>>news:AY5Bg.7538$(E-Mail Removed):
>>
>>>
>>> Edit\ Select All\ Copy to clipboard...Then paste it into Word.
>>>
>>
>>That will do what I need. Thanks to all.
>
> It would only if the original PDF text is in one column. If you have 2
> columns or more, it wont work.
>

You are absolutely right.

Meanwhile I've been Googling around and finally found 'pdf2text.exe' at
http://www.pdf-to-html-word.com/pdf-to-text/

Has anybody tried it? I'm tempted.

Thanks again to all.

Bob

On Sat, 05 Aug 2006 16:03:04 GMT, litefoot <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Does anyone know of a good freeware PDF to Text conversion program? It
>doesn't have to extract images etc. All I need is just the text. I prefer a
>GUI program because I'm not very good at using command line programs.
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Bob

Just tried this program it worked for the text but I would like to be
able to copy a form ie insurance form so that it can be edited is
there a program that could acomplish this. Thanks in advance
Bryan

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> Just tried this program it worked for the text but I would like to be
> able to copy a form ie insurance form so that it can be edited is
> there a program that could acomplish this. Thanks in advance
> Bryan

This do you?

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

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