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Re: Copy text from pdf to TextEdit


  • Subject: Re: Copy text from pdf to TextEdit
  • From: Emmanuel LEVY <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 13:18:39 +0200

Not sure I understand what the problem is exactly, but just in case it helps I mention that Smile's "readtext" command can read text from PDFs (and from URLs and a lot of things by the way).

Best,
Emmanuel

On Jun 17, 2014, at 12:07 PM, Guido Tangorra wrote:

> Hi,
> I want to create a text file from a pdf source.
> I have a pdf with 1000 multiple choice questions like this:
>
> 1 Question 1
>
> A Answer A
> B Answer B
> C Answer C
> D Answer D
> E Answer E
> --------------------------------------------------------
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 100 Question 100
>
> A Answer A
> B Answer B
> C Answer C
> D Answer D
> E Answer E
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> .
> .
> .
> .
> 1000 Question 1000
>
> A Answer A
> B Answer B
> C Answer C
> D Answer D
> E Answer E
>
>
> The dotted line is the separator from a question to another.
> I want to create a txt with 50 random questions from the 1000 above.
> Any suggestions?
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