Re: turning PDF into text

[Travis Siegel]

If your pdf files are already text, and you just want a text version  
of the pdf, then just command-a to highlight the whole document, then  
open text edit, and paste in the text.

Thhat's all there is to it.
Of course, there's caveats (isn't there always)
First, the pdf file must be text, obviously images won't work.  Well,  
more precisely, they will work, but you won't get text, just the  
image in question.
Secondly, the pdf must not be protected, or the text won't copy.  Of  
course, there's ways around that too, but those are off topic for  
this list, so won't be mentioned here.
So, there you go, If you're wanting to convert pdf files with images  
into text, then you can use something like read iris pro (there's a  
free version, but there's other products too, as already mentioned in  
this thread.

hth.

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Re: turning PDF into text

[Chris Johnson]

late response;  well, 2011 at least :)

PDF OCR X (free)

Simpo PDF to Text (was free from giveaway of the day dot com the other day)

Happy New Year!

Chris

On 12/19/11 2:28 PM, Paula Hobley wrote:

Hi there



I am looking for an application that will turn my pdf documents into text.
Can anybody recommend anything?  I know ABBY Fine Reader is out there, but I
don't want to actually scan books, just turn pdf images into text.




Thanks for your help



Paula



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Re: turning PDF into text

[Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis]

On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 9:28 PM, Paula Hobley  wrote:
> I am looking for an application that will turn my pdf documents into text.
> Can anybody recommend anything?  I know ABBY Fine Reader is out there, but I
> don't want to actually scan books, just turn pdf images into text.

ABBY can work from an opened PDF file.

Having bought ABBY, I've actually ended up using PDFPenPro instead. I
think it behaves much more like a Mac application than ABBY. However,
I don't know how well it plays with VoiceOver.

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis
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RE: turning PDF into text

[David Griffith]

There is a good free automatic email conversion   service which will do this
which somebody posted a few weeks ago. You might be able to find it on the
archives . I did save the mail with the address but I am not on my Mac at
the moment. I will send it in later if nobody else does it before me.


I used the service to convert my I-Mac User  guide PDF to text so I could
listen to it on the fly with my Pocket Plextalk and this worked well.
Basically you email the PDF  as an attachment and you get a text version
emailed back as an attachment very quickly 

David Griffith

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Subject: turning PDF into text

Hi there

 

I am looking for an application that will turn my pdf documents into text.
Can anybody recommend anything?  I know ABBY Fine Reader is out there, but I
don't want to actually scan books, just turn pdf images into text.

 


Thanks for your help

 

Paula

 

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turning PDF into text

[Paula Hobley]

Hi there

 

I am looking for an application that will turn my pdf documents into text.
Can anybody recommend anything?  I know ABBY Fine Reader is out there, but I
don't want to actually scan books, just turn pdf images into text.

 


Thanks for your help

 

Paula

 

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