Thanks Chas, I wasn't the person who asked about PDF-to-text conversion but it just so happens it is exactly what I need right now. An important document was corrupted as were the backups and all I had was a PDF. This worked great and saves me tons of time. Great product. Linda Taylor Taylor Graphics 413-628-3959 lintaylor at verizon.net On Dec 22, 2006, at 5:56 PM, Chas Emerick wrote: > ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. > ** You too can help the group > ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. > ** If you did, we all thank you. > > > Indeed, PDF content extraction is one of our specialties. That's > what PDFTextStream does (as Michael rightly pointed out), and > people often come to us when they've strained the abilities of free > or cheap tools past the breaking point. > > In addition to the downloads we offer, you can get a *glimpse* of > PDFTextStream's functionality at the online demo site, which > requires no downloads thanks to its AJAX-y browser-based interface: > > http://pdftextonline.com > > PDFTextStream is available for Java, .NET, or Python, so I'm sure > that either you could find someone to script what you need done, or > we can put something together for you. > > Let me know if you have any questions. > > Cheers, > > Chas Emerick > Founder, Snowtide Informatics Systems > Enterprise-class PDF content extraction > > cemerick at snowtide.com > http://snowtide.com | +1 413.519.6365 > > > On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Michael McIntosh wrote: > >> ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. >> ** You too can help the group >> ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. >> ** If you did, we all thank you. >> >> >> Hello Mary, >> >> It just so happens there is a company in the area named Snowtide >> Informatics offering a product called PDFTextStream that I think does >> exactly what you want! >> >> The product website is located here: >> >> http://snowtide.com/PDFTextStream >> >> They offer a trial version of the software so you can try it out >> to see >> if it works for you. Good luck! >> >> -Michael McIntosh >> Senior Search Architect >> TNR Global, LLC >> >> Mary Malmros wrote: >>> ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee. >>> ** You too can help the group >>> ** Fill out the survey/skills inventory in the member's area. >>> ** If you did, we all thank you. >>> Greets, all, >>> I'm looking for software that can convert PDF to text, and >>> ideally that has some options for reformatting or global >>> replacement, since what I most often need to do is to break a PDF >>> file down into fields and spit out tab-delimited text. I've been >>> using a freeware product that just isn't reliable when big files >>> are involved. Does anyone have something they like for this? >>> TIA, > _______________________________________________ > Hidden-discuss mailing list - home page: http://www.hidden-tech.net > Hidden-discuss at lists.hidden-tech.net > > You are receiving this because you are on the Hidden-Tech > Discussion list. > If you would like to change your list preferences, Go to the > Members page on the Hidden Tech Web site. > http://www.hidden-tech.net/members -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.hidden-tech.net/pipermail/hidden-discuss/attachments/20061223/f2ef23d5/attachment-0005.html