I don’t know of a way to select text in a pdf, but I can tell you how to get all of the text into rtf or plain. The easiest way is to create an Automator workflow like the following.
1. open Automator and choose the services template. 2. Interact with the work flow area and set the service to have no input and to only work with Preview. 3. Add the following actions to the work flow: run apple script, get specified finder items, and extract pdf text. You want them in that order. 4. Interact with the run apple script action and enter the following in the input field: on run tell application “Preview” path of document of front window end tell end run 5. Interact with the extract pdf text action and configure it to output plain text or rtf as you prefer. 6. Save it. That should get the job done. It should also show up in the services menu of Preview. I’m sure you can think of ways to fine tune this idea to better meet your needs. Note that I have found that the extract pdf text action doesn’t seem to work with multi lingual pdfs for some reason. On Mar 31, 2015, at 4:10 PM, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: The subject says it all. When in the pdf viewer, how do I select text? I tried cmd+a which didn’t do anything. The next question is how to add textedit to the services menu in pdf viewer? TIA Chris -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. Barry Hadder bhad...@gmail.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
