Extracting text from PDF

[Thomas McGrath III]

Late to this discussion:

I just remembered that if the PDF is located on the internet that  
GOOGLE will translate the PDF to HTML. Google states that they  
automatically generate html versions of ALL documents as they crawl  
the web.

<quote>
This is the html version of the file http://www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%20Bloggers%20Report%20July%2019%202006.pdf 
.
G o o g l e automatically generates html versions of documents as we  
crawl the web.

To link to or bookmark this page, use the following url: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:FRJaOWTjwwgJ:www.pewinternet.org/pdfs/PIP%2520Bloggers%2520Report%2520July%252019%25202006.pdf+pdf&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=5&gl=us&client=safari
</quote>

To script this in REV might  be hard only because there is no set rule  
to the address of the converted version from the original version.  
However this might be somewhat useful in dealing with the PDF  
revBrowser issue in that a version can be displayed in HTML for most  
online documents.


Tom


On Feb 27, 2008, at 5:56 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 7:43 AM, J. Landman Gay
>
> Do you have the PDF2RTF service installed? It's required. It's working
>> for me in Tiger.
>>
>
> Thanks so much Jacque for stepping in; sorry I left some in the  
> lurch but I
> had to turn up to my real job and then due to unforeseen  
> circumstances ended
> gone much longer than expected :-(
>
> Yes, in a previous post I gave the URL to Devon Technolgies:
>
> http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/freeware/services.html
>
> to pick up PDF2RTFService which is good for 10.4.x and later.
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