Exporting text from recalcitrant PDFs

["Cardimon, Craig" <ccardimon -at- M-S-G -dot- com>]

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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