Re: SCanning text of PDF documents

On Thu, 2008-05-15 at 20:17 -0500, Ray Hauge wrote: > > One thing you'll have to watch is that if the PDF was created by a > scanner, then the "text" on the PDF is actually just an image and cannot > be read without OCR. I got stumped on that one for a while when I was > doing something similar :) I love the tables where you have something like the following: .-----------------.----------------------. | This is a short | This is a different | | paragraph about | piece of content | | something in a | about another thing. | | table | | `-----------------^----------------------' And of course when you cut and paste you get the following: This is a short This is a different paragraph about piece of content something in a about another thing. table Oh yes, that's what I expected too. It's not even something you can clean with a macro. You have carefully piece them back together, or copy/paste one line at a time-- or just type it :) Cheers, Rob. -- http://www.interjinn.com Application and Templating Framework for PHP