[thelist] Google and PDF's

Joshua Olson joshua at waetech.com
Wed Feb 18 22:08:27 CST 2004


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott wolpow
> Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 11:01 PM

> >>In the same vain is there a way to strip text from PDF's or from Quark
> >>files?
> >
> >you can select all text from a pdf and paste it into another file
> >(edit->select all or ctrl+a) - is this what you mean?

> No dynamically, I need to strip text from over 1,000 articles.

Scott,

This is something that I've looked at before.  After a bit of searching I
only found one tool that seemed to fit the bill:

http://www.pdf-tools.com/en/products_pdfexportapi.html.

It's a simple tool that allows for extraction of text from a PDF file that
costs about $350.

Good luck,

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Joshua Olson
Web Application Engineer
WAE Tech Inc.
http://www.waetech.com/service_areas/
706.210.0168




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