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Subject: Re: where are the difficult test positions ? THE INFORMANT archives

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 21:52:12 11/11/05

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On November 10, 2005 at 13:12:39, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On November 10, 2005 at 04:05:32, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On November 09, 2005 at 12:48:32, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>...
>>
>>>The problem is the PDF format.  If they were text, probably some effort with SED
>>>or even grep could do it.  For sure, a C program could pull out some of that
>>>stuff.
>>
>>Any PDF file can be easily converted to plain ascii.
>
>Text extracts make lots of errors.  At least that is my experience.

He is not talking about OCR, just copy and paste. A trick someone showed me was
to install the generic/text only printer driver and print to file.



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