Ho to convert a *.pdf file to a text file

January 7, 2009 on 7:28 am | In mybachcars.com |

Does anybody know of a way to convert a *.pdf file, or a document word pad file or a new bitmap image paint file to a text file. I want to do this so that I can edit it. The only methods I can think of are manually copying it, or printing it out, scanning the printed page and using OCR. Both methods are very inconvenient, laborious and error prone. Is there a better way? If not can at least the *.pdf file be OCR-d or introduced in Visioneer's PaperPort without first copying it to paper?Does anybody know of a way to convert a *.pdf file, or a document word pad file or a new bitmap image paint file to a text file. I want to do this so that I can edit it. The only methods I can think of are manually copying it, or printing it out, scanning the printed page and using OCR. Both methods are very inconvenient, laborious and error prone. Is there a better way? If not can at least the *.pdf file be OCR-d or introduced in Visioneer's PaperPort without first copying it to paper?Does anybody know of a way to convert a *.pdf file, or a document word pad file or a new bitmap image paint file to a text file. I want to do this so that I can edit it. The only methods I can think of are manually copying it, or printing it out, scanning the printed page and using OCR. Both methods are very inconvenient, laborious and error prone. Is there a better way? If not can at least the *.pdf file be OCR-d or introduced in Visioneer's PaperPort without first copying it to paper?

Adobe has a service online, which you can use by posting the pdf file on a webserver some where, so the bot can get at it, or, by emailing the pdf to them. I use the email version of this quite often, and it is rather good, and the responding email is very fast. The link for these tools is here : http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/access_onlinetools.html google search PDF to Text webadept-ga

I have tried right double clicking and left double clicking the "T" in Acrobat reader. Both enable to highlight several lines in the first column but not without also highlighting several lines in the next column. Pressing CTRL-C, going to notepad or Wordpad and pressing CTRL-V produces text; but the text is from somewhere else in the *.pdf document, NOT the text I have highlighted. Could you please elablorate more precisely how I am going to go about if I want to copy a sentence ot a table to text.

Hi, it appears you are asking for clarification from one of the comments below. Did you try the address I gave you for the Adobe site? That will take all of the text from the document and email you back that text in a plain text email. From there you can do what you want with it. As I suggested, the turn around is very fast, and this should give you a more automated way of conversion as well. I personally use a perl script which takes all the pdf's in a directory and emails them one at a time to the adobe site, and then collects the returning text files as they come in, placing them in a database. Just an example of what can be done. The commentors below will not get a notice that you have asked for clarification, so don't feel bad if they don't answer you. Thanks, webadept-ga

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