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RE: Export text out of PDF -- One-page-at-a-time limitation
Subject:RE: Export text out of PDF -- One-page-at-a-time limitation From:REJ-D -at- betasystems -dot- com To:techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com Date:Mon, 13 Dec 1999 09:17:16 +0100
On the subject of extracting (plain) text from a PDF file ...
>> Does anyone know of an application that can export text cleanly
>> out of a PDF file or save a PDF in different formats? Any help
>> on the subject would be appreciated.
> As previously mentioned, Acrobat 4.0 includes a page-at-a-time
converter....
I would like to add the following:
To overcome the page-at-a-time limitation, first choose
View > Continuous. Afterwards, you can choose Edit >
Select All to select the entire text in the PDF file and
then copy the selection to the clipboard.
