Extracting text from PDF

[Thomas McGrath III]

Thanks Richard,

I have only tried to give back what has been so freely given to me:  
The members of this list have always given me their time and patience  
freely and with out limit.

Update on me:
I had to abandon a PDF project due to other work and have not been  
able to finish it.
I have also abandoned a few other projects over the past year.

I am releasing a cross-platform iTunes Library to the members of this  
list once I finish cleaning it up a bit. Uses Revolution, Applescript  
and VBscript. Does a lot more than the standard play, pause stop. It  
actually can search the iTunes store, Create playlists, etc. The new  
version of iTunes broke a few things so I will try and clean them up  
before releasing here.

I am working on a project for inclusion on the iPhone and am using  
Revolution for the desktop prototype, very cool. I have created many  
prototypes over the past year or so and all have been successful. I  
just wish I had more time to work on my own projects (without losing  
my job of course, grin).

I am working with mashups as well and look forward to the Rev on  
Rockets tutorials coming up.

Thanks again,

Tom McGrath


On Feb 22, 2008, at 2:59 PM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> Kay C Lan wrote:
>
>> Probably no use to you Richard as I believe this is for personal  
>> use only as
>> it requires PDF2RTFService from Devon Systems:
>> http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html
> ...
>> So in Rev:
>> launch tFileName with "/yourHD/Applications/TextEdit.app"
>> the 8 line AppleScript looks like this:
>> 1 tell application "TextEdit"
>> 2  set theText to the text of document 1
>> 3  make new document
>> 4  set the path of document 1 to "/yourHD/Users/Shared/Untitled1.txt"
>> 5  save document 1
>> 6  close document 1
>> 7  close document 1
>> 8 end tell
>
> Wonderful!  That's actually exactly what I need, as this is just a  
> one-time tool for internal use only to help me build a textual index  
> of a collection PDF files.  Thank you for the help -- much  
> appreciated.
>
> I should also thank Tom McGrath, who kindly sent me a fully  
> functional Automator action to do that too.  It runs well but only  
> in Leopard, and it simplifies what I need to do to be able to  
> generate the paths dynamically in Rev, so the AppleScript solution  
> is a better fit for this task.  Just the same, Tom I very much  
> appreciate your taking the time to put that together.  You've always  
> been such a very helpful member of this community.
>
> -- 
> Richard Gaskin
> Managing Editor, revJournal
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