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Re: Extracting Text from a PDF or EPS
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Re: Extracting Text from a PDF or EPS


  • Subject: Re: Extracting Text from a PDF or EPS
  • From: Bill Tandy <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2001 19:40:45 -0600

Eric,

If you manage to do it, would you let me have a copy? I opened pdf and
eps files with BBEdit and it looks predictable enough (but tedious) to
pull the text out (or drop out the tags and codes).

-Bill

On 2/5/2001 2:55 PM Eric Schult email@hidden wrote:

>Can anybody lead me in a direction that would enable me to extract text from
>a PDF or EPS file? I've used the getlines and readfromfile commands
>(Tanaka's Osas) and the Open for Access command on text files before, but
>I'm not at all sure how to go about getting text from any other file format.
>
>wes
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