Comments on: Extract text from PDF, DOC, HTML, CHM, and RTF files

By: Chinni

Chinni — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 06:04:21 +0000

Thank you very much for the post!
I’m trying to extract text from a pdf document which is in a local native language. I have the fonts with me, but not sure how to convert the pdf document and extract text.
Please let me know.

By: Nichole

Nichole — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 23:24:44 +0000

Can you tell me how to convert an RTF file into a Jpeg file. I made a screenshot of a page that I would like to edit but I can’t open it with any of my editing programs.. Thanks, Nichole

By: Keith

Keith — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 15:03:33 +0000

Great post, many thanks

By: John

John — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 16:23:12 +0000

Sorry, but absolutely no text appears. Could this be because the documents that I have come from libraries and have been scanned into PDF files so that they are treated as “images”?

What lacks in the marketplace, so far as I can see, is a software that will extract text from PDF files that came from scanning documents. You can re-scan the documents and then run them through some OCR software; and there are PDF to Word programs that use OCR software; but no OCR software works very well except on large print, easy-to-read, English documents. No OCR software converts foreign language diacritics worth a darn.

I have numerous German and French documents from which I quote and I’m tired of putting in the diacritics by hand. Thus a good software program that actually extracted the text from a PDF scanned file, rather than converting it, would be a time saver.

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By: Ahamad

Ahamad — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 15:21:59 +0000

In case you want to programmatically extract text from a PDF document, here is how to acheive that(using coldfusion):
http://cf-examples.net/index.c.....t-From-PDF

By: rtt_hu

rtt_hu — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:14:58 +0000

Maybe you can give a web-link clearly,so the software can be shared more convenient.Thank you!

By: akishore

akishore — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:53:46 +0000

Hi loftninja,

Once you have extracted the text from the PDF document, you can translate it using Google Translate. Note that the translations are not going to be very good. Then you can convert it back to PDF by printing to PDF using a program like CutePDF.

By: loftninja

loftninja — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 03:14:39 +0000

great info….by chance does anyone know how to then translate text info another language, then press it back into origianl pdf layout?

By: Noemi B

Noemi B — Fri, 14 Mar 2008 15:52:22 +0000

Totally agree with Gregg D. I love your finds and find alot of them very useful, but there have been a few where you just cannot find the download link and I’ve had to google the app to find it.

Otherwise, keep up the good work!!

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How to convert a PDF file to Word, Excel or JPG format — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:17:43 +0000

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Recap of last month’s best posts on Online Tech Tips — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:06:28 +0000

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By: Gregg Decker

Gregg Decker — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 19:13:37 +0000

I am very impressed with you software suggestions. I find most of them useful. I look forward daily to my emails from you.
I have one suggestion and that is to make it easier for users to download the software via one easy to find link. There have been a few times when I gave up looking for the link and then forgot all about the software that I could of found useful.

Keep up the good work.

Gregg Decker