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PDFs and text files

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Can anyone recommend one of the PDF-to-text rippers as being
better than the others? I suddenly find myself with a PDF spoiler list, at
least a month earlier than I was expecting...

Mark.

--
Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet
measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you
can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth
at a distance of about 35 feet. This would explain the death of the
dinosaurs. Well, the tall ones, anyway. -- Unknown
 
I just copied and pasted into Word.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Perneta" <turing2@rcn.com>
To: cv@support.wolflair.com
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:56 PM
Subject: [CardVault] PDFs and text files


> Can anyone recommend one of the PDF-to-text rippers as being
> better than the others? I suddenly find myself with a PDF spoiler list,
at
> least a month earlier than I was expecting...
>
> Mark.
>
> --
> Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet
> measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you
> can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth
> at a distance of about 35 feet. This would explain the death of the
> dinosaurs. Well, the tall ones, anyway. -- Unknown
>
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Uhhh. I recommend Clipboard. :\


--Kyle Turner
emperor799@earthlink.net


"You're out of your mind!"
"That's between me and my mind" -- Firefly


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Perneta
To: cardvault@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 9:56 PM
Subject: [CardVault] PDFs and text files


Can anyone recommend one of the PDF-to-text rippers as being
better than the others? I suddenly find myself with a PDF spoiler list, at
least a month earlier than I was expecting...

Mark.

--
Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet
measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you
can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth
at a distance of about 35 feet. This would explain the death of the
dinosaurs. Well, the tall ones, anyway. -- Unknown


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That's what I meant btw.


--Kyle Turner
emperor799@earthlink.net


"You're out of your mind!"
"That's between me and my mind" -- Firefly


----- Original Message -----
From: Edward Bolme
To: cardvault@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [CardVault] PDFs and text files


I just copied and pasted into Word.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Perneta" <turing2@rcn.com>
To: <cardvault@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:56 PM
Subject: [CardVault] PDFs and text files


> Can anyone recommend one of the PDF-to-text rippers as being
> better than the others? I suddenly find myself with a PDF spoiler list,
at
> least a month earlier than I was expecting...
>
> Mark.
>
> --
> Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet
> measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you
> can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth
> at a distance of about 35 feet. This would explain the death of the
> dinosaurs. Well, the tall ones, anyway. -- Unknown
>
>
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At 07:30 PM 2/17/2003 -0800, Edward Bolme wrote:
>I just copied and pasted into Word.

Hmm. I suppose that would work, but it seems so
labor-intensive. I'll give a couple of the rippers a try - I have to do
this four (five, including BoHD) more times, after all - and see if I can
get a good result that way.

Mark.

--
Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet
measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you
can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth
at a distance of about 35 feet. This would explain the death of the
dinosaurs. Well, the tall ones, anyway. -- Unknown
 
All you have to do is go to edit, select all. Then press Ctrl + C to copy. Open your program, Word or whatever, and press Ctrl + V to paste.


--Kyle Turner
emperor799@earthlink.net


"You're out of your mind!"
"That's between me and my mind" -- Firefly


----- Original Message -----
From: Mark Perneta
To: cardvault@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 10:47 PM
Subject: Re: [CardVault] PDFs and text files


At 07:30 PM 2/17/2003 -0800, Edward Bolme wrote:
>I just copied and pasted into Word.

Hmm. I suppose that would work, but it seems so
labor-intensive. I'll give a couple of the rippers a try - I have to do
this four (five, including BoHD) more times, after all - and see if I can
get a good result that way.

Mark.

--
Scientists have shown that the moon is moving away at a tiny yet
measurable distance from the earth every year. If you do the math, you
can calculate that 85 million years ago the moon was orbiting the earth
at a distance of about 35 feet. This would explain the death of the
dinosaurs. Well, the tall ones, anyway. -- Unknown


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If you identify a good one, please let me know which one it is, too. I'll
likely have need for one in the near future. :-) Sorry I can't be any help
in pointing you at any good solutions, though.

Thanks, Rob

At 09:56 PM 2/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> Can anyone recommend one of the PDF-to-text rippers as being
>better than the others? I suddenly find myself with a PDF spoiler list, at
>least a month earlier than I was expecting...


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Rob Bowes (rob@wolflair.com) (559) 658-6995
Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com
 
> Can anyone recommend one of the PDF-to-text rippers as being
>better than the others? I suddenly find myself with a PDF spoiler list, at
>least a month earlier than I was expecting...

I used pdftotext that came with RedHat Linux. I ended up with a whole
host of spacing problems which I ended up writing a program to clean up (and
then hand reviewed). My biggest problem were fields that ended up being
wrapped (the extra portion ended up being on a line by themselves after the
rest of the data).
 
Rob, As I mentioned before, I have the full version of Acrobat. All I
have to do is load the document and save it as an rtf file.
For now, I'm more than happy to assist in any conversions.


Rob Bowes wrote:

> If you identify a good one, please let me know which one it is, too. I'll
> likely have need for one in the near future. :-) Sorry I can't be any
> help
> in pointing you at any good solutions, though.
>
> Thanks, Rob
>
> At 09:56 PM 2/17/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> > Can anyone recommend one of the PDF-to-text rippers as being
> >better than the others? I suddenly find myself with a PDF spoiler
> list, at
> >least a month earlier than I was expecting...
>


--
Jim Williamson <jim@timewarpcomics.com <mailto:jim@timewarpcomics.com>>
TimeWarp Comics & Games
(973) 857-9788
www.timewarpcomics.com <http://www.timewarpcomics.com>
 
That must be something that Adobe added in Acrobat 5. I've got the full
Acrobat 4 and no such option exists. I'll happily take you up on your offer
to convert stuff for me in the future. If it turns out I need to convert
stuff regularly, I'll pick up the latest version of Acrobat. But for now, I
have no need for it other than ripping the contents from a PDF file once in
a great while. :-)

Thanks for the offer to help!
-Rob

At 10:41 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Rob, As I mentioned before, I have the full version of Acrobat. All I
>have to do is load the document and save it as an rtf file.
>For now, I'm more than happy to assist in any conversions.


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Rob Bowes (rob@wolflair.com) (559) 658-6995
Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com
 
Yes, that is an option added in 5.0 I missed his original post or I would've explained earlier.


--Kyle Turner
emperor799@earthlink.net


"You might say Reality is a result
of complex negotiations between
the observer and the observed.
But that is merely a point of view." -- Andromeda

----- Original Message -----
From: Rob Bowes
To: cardvault@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, February 20, 2003 2:45 AM
Subject: Re: [CardVault] PDFs and text files


That must be something that Adobe added in Acrobat 5. I've got the full
Acrobat 4 and no such option exists. I'll happily take you up on your offer
to convert stuff for me in the future. If it turns out I need to convert
stuff regularly, I'll pick up the latest version of Acrobat. But for now, I
have no need for it other than ripping the contents from a PDF file once in
a great while. :-)

Thanks for the offer to help!
-Rob

At 10:41 PM 2/19/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>Rob, As I mentioned before, I have the full version of Acrobat. All I
>have to do is load the document and save it as an rtf file.
>For now, I'm more than happy to assist in any conversions.


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Lone Wolf Development www.wolflair.com


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