RE: [users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-09 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
R N D Martin [mailto:rndmar...@cix.co.uk] suggested: > In article , b...@oblong.com.au > (Bob Long) wrote: > > > *From:* Bob Long > > *To:* users@openoffice.org > > *Date:* Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:01:17 +1000 > > > > Dave Stevens wrote, > > > > > I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer hav

Re: [users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-07 Thread John Jason Jordan
On Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:54:41 +0100 Rob Clement dijo: >To extract the text from a pdf - why not simply scan in the text using >a document scanner set to OCR and not to scan pictures. It would save >trying to do it another way. Earlier in this thread there was a mention of printing to CUPS-PDF. I

Re: [users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-07 Thread Rob Clement
On 07/04/2010 19:38, Lars Nooden wrote: On 4/7/10 7:07 PM, R N D Martin wrote: Foxit reader which is faster than the adobe reader also has a save as facility which can be used to extract a text file from ... It can only extract text if the text has not been converted to bitmap or outline. Acce

Re: [users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-07 Thread Lars Nooden
On 4/7/10 7:07 PM, R N D Martin wrote: Foxit reader which is faster than the adobe reader also has a save as facility which can be used to extract a text file from ... It can only extract text if the text has not been converted to bitmap or outline. Accept the fact that if you lost the orig

RE: [users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-07 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
R N D Martin [mailto:rndmar...@cix.co.uk] offered: > > In article , b...@oblong.com.au > (Bob Long) wrote: > > > *From:* Bob Long > > *To:* users@openoffice.org > > *Date:* Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:01:17 +1000 > > > > Dave Stevens wrote, > > > > > I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer hav

[users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-07 Thread R N D Martin
In article , b...@oblong.com.au (Bob Long) wrote: > *From:* Bob Long > *To:* users@openoffice.org > *Date:* Fri, 02 Apr 2010 07:01:17 +1000 > > Dave Stevens wrote, > > > I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer have access to the > > original > > .odt format. I've installed the sun-pdfim

Re: [users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-05 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Hi Bob, On 1 April 2010 23:01, Bob Long wrote: > Dave Stevens wrote, > >> I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer have access to the original >> .odt format. I've installed the sun-pdfimport extension and can open the >> file in >> draw. If I read the documents right I should now be able t

[users] Re: converting a .pdf to .odt???

2010-04-01 Thread Bob Long
Dave Stevens wrote, I have to convert a .pdf for which I no longer have access to the original .odt format. I've installed the sun-pdfimport extension and can open the file in draw. If I read the documents right I should now be able to resave in .odt but neither save as nor export offers me this