RE: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
- From: Jamal Mazrui <empower@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 12:00:01 -0400 (EDT)
I'm still learning how to use threads effectively. That's a good idea,
which I'll investigate.
Jamal
On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Ken Perry wrote:
> Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 01:24:01 -0400
> From: Ken Perry <whistler@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
>
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>
> Couldn't you run the OCR in a thread and then kill it?
>
> Ken
>
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> Subject: PDF2TXT 3.3 released
>
> http://EmpowermentZone.com/p2tsetup.exe
>
> PDF2TXT now uses an updated version of the QuickPDF library, which is
> commercially available at
> http://QuickPDF.com
>
> Several years worth of fixes and enhancements are incorporated in this
> library version compared to the previous one used. Although the source
> code to this and other tools used by PDF2TXT is not available, its own
> source code in the PowerBASIC language, PDF2TXT.bas, is now installed
> along with the executable.
>
> As before, the Image Format checkbox (Alt+F) is available for optical
> character recognition (OCR) -- using Google Tesseract technology -- on
> image-based PDFs that elude text extraction methods. Due to technical
> issues, there is not a simple way of aborting an OCR process that has
> already started. This is now possible, however, via a work-around of
> launching another copy of PDF2TXT. It clears the deck during its startup
> phase. The Quit button (Alt+Q) may then be invoked to close either copy
> of the program (though no harm results from both being loaded).
>
> As Before the Grab URL button (Alt+G) gets the address of the current web
> page in Internet Explorer and sets it as the PDF source. This now works
> with versions of Internet Explorer above 6.0. The feature makes it easy
> to download and convert all PDFs linked to a web page.
>
> An additional hotkey is introduced: F11 for Elevate Version (like the
> EdSharp and FileDir programs). This checks whether a newer version of
> PDF2TXT is available, and offers to install it. The command makes future
> updates to the program particularly convenient to obtain.
>
> As before, the Extra HTML checkbox (Alt+X) uses a different conversion
> technology to produce a .htm conversion in addition to the .txt one. To
> further increase conversion options via this checkbox, it now also causes
> another technology to be used for producing the .txt file, using the
> PDFToText.exe utility that is also seperately available at
> http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html
> Thus PDF2TXT now incorporates three different .txt conversion methods, a
> .htm method, and an OCR one -- all of which are possible in a batch mode
> that processes every PDF in a directory. The program has become the most
> capable, free converter of PDFs available on Windows!
>
> Jamal
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