Re: pdftotext
Re: pdftotext
- Subject: Re: pdftotext
- From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 13:52:18 +1100
On 21 Dec 2013, at 12:35 PM, Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:
> Your handler doesn't produce as nice an output as pdftotext's raw switch, but I'm not certain what all the differences are yet. I imagine it can be worked around.
>
> The biggest difference seems to be how whitespace is handled.
The other difference, which might or might not help, is that you can use the index of a character to query where on a page that character appears. You can also get the result as styled text. So if your analysis needs to rely on a bit more than grep, there are other (more complicated, admittedly) options.
> But I've been using the SIO for a decade+ and can write extremely useful code in seconds,
Understood, but I'm not sure the grep syntaxes are all that different.
> and that doesn't take into account all the templates and handlers I have for it.
Don't mind me -- I'm in end-of-year contemplative mode. It's been so many years that we've been begging for AS access to things like grep, and so it seems a bit ironic that now that our wish has come true, the general response might well be that, well, we found it somewhere else already so we didn't really need it after all.
Comfort and joy?
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Shane Stanley <email@hidden>
<www.macosxautomation.com/applescript/apps/>
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