J
Judy
looking for somehting that will allow me to capture a pdf file in
eithor a table format or a text format. any suggestions?
eithor a table format or a text format. any suggestions?
A
Al Klein
Acrobat Reader - highlight the text and copy it to the clip board.
J
Jan
Start Word and ctrl+v
Jan
Jan
J
Judy
I highligh all/ control c/ nothing.
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Al Klein
As Jan said, paste it into Word.
Selecting all will select all on the current page only. You'll have
to change the cursor to the text tool if you want to select more than
one page.
Depending on how the original data was formatted before it was
converted to a .pdf, you may have a problem, in that the paste will
result in a lot of text, but not a table. In that case, and if the
spaces between columns are tabs, you can just highlight the data and
tell Word to convert the text to a table.
If the spaces between columns are spaces, you're going to have to
change them to tabs manually, one at a time.
Unless someone knows a better way.
E
ellis_jay
Al said:
When I highlight numbers like 23.6 it pastes as some kind of gibberish and
not 23.6. SO how do you get around that?
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Al Klein
Tell the original author to learn a little more about .pdf files. I
have one that has the Yen symbol in the .pdf wherever there was a "\"
in the original.
Buying a conversion program didn't make the author of your .pdf, or
the author of my .pdf, any more capable of creating .pdf files.
In the mean time, I know there are programs that can convert from .pdf
to .doc or .txt but 1) I don't have any names or links handy at the
moment and 2) the programs usually barf on the same things copying and
pasting does, since the error is present in the .pdf file itself.
H
H-Man
PAYWARE ALERT!!!
This has been an ongoing struggle for me for some thime and I've found the
solution, however it is not freeware.
Omnipage Pro does this with great accuracy, allowing a table export
directly into a spreadsheet if required. It is more accurate at
reconstructing the original format and such than any other thing I have
ever tried. There are some PDF to DOC conveters out there, and I;ve tried a
couple of them, nothing comes a close as a good OCR program. The reason
Omnipage can do this is because it treats the PDF page as an image and does
conversion from there, anything that is a graphic can be designated as
such, anything that is text is OCR'd and recreated as editable text. So for
the most part, as you see it in the screen is how it is reproduced.
Now, it is not always perfect as anyone who uses OCR will tell you, but it
is far superior to anything else I've ever tried.
I got version 14 a couple of months ago on a promotion from Serif Software
for like $30.00. This is substantially less than retail, and it doesn't
seem crippled in any way. I've not seen any features or anything missing
from the docs.
T
Thore
In Foxit Reader You can mark some text -> ctrl-C -> and in a texteditor
-> ctrl-V, and you have the text there...if that is what you want.
I've stored Acrobat and use Foxit every day... smaller, quick start and
so..
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