Extracting text from PDF

[Sarah Reichelt]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 9:43 AM, J. Landman Gay
<jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
> 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.

Aaah, THAT'S the trick. Thanks Jacque.

Sarah