Extracting text from PDF
J. Landman Gay
jacque at hyperactivesw.com
Sat Feb 23 18:43:57 EST 2008
Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Kay C Lan wrote:
>> 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
>
> Maybe this is another Leopard thang, I dunno, I haven't set up my test
> stack for this yet, but in Tiger I can't get Text Edit to open a PDF in
> any meaningful way; that is, it just shows the raw PDF data but doesn't
> render it.
>
> So my question is whether TextEdit renders PDFs normally in Leopard, or
> if the behavior is the same as under Tiger then how does the "launch"
> command differ from dropping a file on the app's Dock icon?
Do you have the PDF2RTF service installed? It's required. It's working
for me in Tiger.
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