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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