Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Philippe Landau
Miark wrote: On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files,

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Q.H. Wang
you could also open the pdf in kWrite. this will import the text too. the pdf format is proprietary and often weird. text can therefore come out mangled and out of sequence. Many thanks Philippe. I also notice the problem of KWord to import pdf file. For some pdf files, they're readable

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-06 Thread Q.H. Wang
Not much to it, really. I just type 'pdftotext filename.pdf' which generates filename.txt. Feel free to e-mail me the file offlist if you'd like me to take a crack at it. Many thanks Miark. I tried it again this morning but I have no luck. For certain pdf documents, pdftotext could work. But

[newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Q.H. Wang
Hi folks, I have some problem when using the feature of select text of Adobe reader 7.0. For some pdf documents, the texts I selected are ok. But for some others, the texts I slected are kinda mess when I put them into OO writer. Does any one have similar experience? Bests, Q.H.

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 17:52:15 +0100, Q.H. wrote: I have some problem when using the feature of select text of Adobe reader 7.0. For some pdf documents, the texts I selected are ok. But for some others, the texts I slected are kinda mess when I put them into OO writer. Does any one have similar

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Q.H. Wang
Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files, but I got no luck. What I got in the text files are

Re: [newbie] pdf text

2005-04-05 Thread Miark
On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 00:03:33 +0100, Q.H. wrote: Although I have Acrobat 7, I still use pdftotext to convert from one to the other. Try that instead and see if it does any better. Many thanks Miark. I tried to use pdftotext to convert one or two pages of two pdf files into text files,