Re: Reading a pdf text file
Re: Reading a pdf text file
- Subject: Re: Reading a pdf text file
- From: Gil Dawson <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 07:20:25 -0800
Success!
Thanks for some more great suggestions:
At 11:31 AM +1100 1/10/05, Tim Mansour wrote:
> you can just type "pdftotext" at the command line
At 1:22 AM +0000 1/10/05, Martin Orpen wrote:
>It will install it into /usr/bin...
At 10:44 AM -0500 1/9/05, Richard Smykla wrote:
>>> ...can be found in the /sw/bin/ directory.
At 8:47 PM -0500 1/9/05, Richard Smykla wrote:
>downloading and installing the Fink utility:
...
>and also the Apple Developers' Tools CD with XCode...
At 9:10 PM -0500 1/9/05, Richard Smykla wrote:
>on my daughter's iMac... /usr/local/bin/...
That last one worked!
To review, the following AppleScript using Script Editor 2.0 in MacOS
10.3.7 worked:
property pdfFile : alias "TopDisk:path:to:file.pdf"
set response to POSIX path of (pdfFile)
log response
set commando to "/usr/local/bin/pdftotext -layout "
& quoted form of response
log commando
do shell script commando
The complete 15-page file was translated completely to a
similarly-named file with a .txt extension in the same folder. This
looks like it will do the job!
Thanks, guys!
--Gil
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