Extracting text from PDF

[Thomas McGrath III]

That was an awesome reveal.

I wonder where else that would work. Safari ???

HHmmmm

Thanks

Tom

On Feb 23, 2008, at 4:48 AM, Kay C Lan wrote:

> Stop the Presses!!!!
>
> I'm over the moon, I can't believe I missed this before, I can't  
> believe how
> many circles I've run, but I thought I'd have another go at trying to
> eliminating the step of creating an extra document, I want  
> AppleScript to
> talk directly to Rev, and I'VE FOUND IT :-)
>
> Read the Doc's, Read the Doc's, Read the Doc's. As bad as we  
> complain they
> are, there is still so much in there if only I took in what I read;-)
>
> Here's what the Doc's say about the 'do' command:
>
> If you use the do as OSALanguageName form, any result returned by  
> the script
> language is placed in the result.
>
> ANY result from AppleScript will be placed in Rev's 'the result'
>
> I look at AppleScript's 'Event Log' window all the time to check the
> 'Result' of each major step. The first step of my script is to put  
> the text
> of the document into a variable. is that a result?. So, out of  
> interest I
> removed all the following steps so the only step of the script was  
> to place
> the text into an AppleScript variable.
>
> Then in Rev I simply ' put the result into myVariable'. And there it  
> was,
> all the text. It's that easy!!! The only minor minor problem is that  
> in
> comes in AppleScript format, which means there are quotes around the
> content, but a quick 'put char 2 to -2' will eliminate those.
>
> So in Rev:
>
> use the launch command to force a pdf to open with TextEdit
>
> use do to run this AppleScript:
>
> tell application "TextEdit"
>    set tText to the text of document 1
> end tell
>
> put the result into myVariable --is now full of your pdf's text :-))))
> put char 2 to -2 of myVariable into myVariable --remove quotes
>
> you'll probably want to do another 'do' to run this AppleScript to  
> close the
> document
>
> tell application "TextEdit"
>    close document 1
>    --or if your finished with TextEdit
>    quit
>    --you will be prompted to save if there are any unsaved docs
> end tell
>
> Now to go and celebrate with some really loud Stevie Ray  
> Vaughn...The house
> is a rockin' so don't bother knockin'
> _______________________________________________
> use-revolution mailing list
> use-revolution at lists.runrev.com
> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your  
> subscription preferences:
> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution