RE: Saving PDF Files to Text

  • From: "Lora" <loravara@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:26:00 -0600

Londa, thank you.
 
This does work, but Control-A only selects a page at a time.  For a long
book, this could be time-consuming.  Any thoughts on selecting the entire
document?
 
Thanks.
 

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From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Londa Peterson
Sent: Monday, April 21, 2008 7:32 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Saving PDF Files to Text


Hi Laura,
 
The easiest way to do this would be to open the file with JAWS running.
Press control-A for select all.  Copy to the clipboard.  Then open a file in
notepad, Word, etc., and paste.  You should get exactly what's in the
virtual viewer.  This will work with JAWS 7 or 8 or earlier.  If you're
using JAWS 9, there is one more step you need to do.  Let me know if that's
the case.

-----Original Message-----
From: jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jfw-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of
Lora
Sent: Saturday, April 19, 2008 8:34 AM
To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Saving PDF Files to Text


Good Morning,
 
I'd like to save a PDF file to text, but I want to save it the way JAWS sees
it when I choose to open the file and read it "in the order of the raw print
stream."  Is there a way to do this?  Even when I have the file open like
that, when I choose to save to text, I get the standard reading order, which
is incorrect, and presents the text in a seriously garbled fashion.
 
Thanks.
 
 

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