Re: Importing "Plaintext" from PDF
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg113490] Re: Importing "Plaintext" from PDF
- From: James Stein <mathgroup at stein.org>
- Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2010 02:07:06 -0500 (EST)
One possibility is to open the PDF file in Adobe Reader and then save it to a TXT file via the "Save as Text..." command. Then let Mathematica import the TXT file. On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 1:36 AM, Mark Coleman <markspcoleman at gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm attempting to use Mathematica (v7.01) to Import the text from a PDF > file. > If I simply Import[] the file, it returns a list of graphics objects > representing each page of the file. If I use use "Plaintext" option of > Import[], it returns an empty list. My source pdf files were obtained > from Google's Patent Search function. Just wondering if I there is > some option I am missing or if Mathematica cannot Import text from pdf > files. > > Thanks, > > Mark > >