Hi Barry, I followed your modified instructions to make a service. Your step 5 says to interact with the extract pdf text action to configure it to save it to txt or rtf. Once I select this action in the pdf table, I can’t figure out how to configure it. I’m new to automator, so you’ll have to bare with me. Chris > On Mar 31, 2015, at 10:38 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to suggest a much simpler variation on my initial suggestion. > > In the workflow, Git rid of the applescript and get finder item actions, > change the input of the service to pdf file, and the application to Finder. > The only action you need is the extract pdf text. > > I wasn’t able to make this work at first, but I finally figured out that it > was due to the multi lingual pdf issue that I mentioned earlier. > So, if you prefer, you can just export a pdf to rtf within finder. > > > On Mar 31, 2015, at 8:24 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > > > 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.
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