Extracting text from PDF

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Wed Feb 20 22:02:13 EST 2008


Luis wrote:

 > Richard Gaskin wrote:
 >>
 >> Is there an easy way to do this in script?
 >
 > Well, on OS X there's an Automator action that can extract the text
 > from a PDF, so I'd assume it's AppleScriptable. Don't know on the
 > Windows side of things.

Thank you, Luis. This is just a one-off, so Automator would be fine. 
But I looked through there earlier and couldn't find such an action (OS 
X 10.4.11).  Is this new to Leopard, or did I just miss something?

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