Hi, You were correct! Once I hit enter on the action I was able to interact with it and set the output options.
This is far easier than performing a similar action with Adobe Acrobat Reader in Windows. Chris > On Apr 1, 2015, at 2:30 PM, Barry Hadder <bhad...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > Sounds like you haven't added to your work flow. To add an action to a > workflow, select it with up or down arrows and press enter. You can then > interact with the workflow area and then interact with the action. > When you interact with that action, there are radio buttons to choose the > output format. > > On Apr 1, 2015, at 1:12 PM, Chris Moore <chris.w...@gmail.com> wrote: > > 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. > > -- > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. 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