[access-uk] Re: Can anyone suggest the best program for converting .pdf files in to text while maintaining any associated drawings and photographs?

  • From: Stuart MacMillan <bznclty@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 03:45:08 -0800

It may have been possible to use the pdf2html tool and that would have
retained the graphics and layout as well.
This depends on the complexity of the pdf

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:11 AM, Carol Pearson
<carol.pearson29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Great Alexander that you got a solution from Eleanor.  That's what the list
> is all about ...
>
> --
> Carol
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Shannon"
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> To: <access-uk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2010 4:15 PM
> Subject: [access-uk] Re: Can anyone suggest the best program for converting
> .pdf files in to text while maintaining any associated drawings and
> photographs?
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>
>> Hi Carol,
>>
>> Thank you for your reply.
>>
>> Both your reply and one from Yusuf earlier in the thread
>> wouldn't have worked, as I really need to keep the
>> photographs and diagrams contained in the .pdf file when
>> converting it, so that I can understand the relationship
>> between the text and the photographs and diagrams.
>>
>> As a result of a comment from Eleanor Burke yesterday, I was
>> able to follow up the suggestion of acquiring Abbyy
>> FineReader version 10, and that seems to have allowed me to
>> access the document as I require and convert it into word
>> without losing the pictures or diagrams.
>>
>>
>>
>> Alexander Shannon
>>
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