Richmond wrote:
I see that Supercard, in their 4.8 Beta have introduced these:
rtfToText - extracts text from an RTF or RTFD file
pdfToText - extracts text from a PDF file
docToText - extracts text from a Microsoft Word file
docxToText - extracts text from a Microsoft Word XML file
htmlToText - extracts text from an HTML file
webarchiveToText - extracts text from a WebArchive file
http://forums.supercard.us/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2115&p=10705&hilit=pdf#p10705
However, as I have just joined the Supercard Forum [for the only reason
to get a copy of the Beta] this will take a few days to come through.
Richard Gaskin should not have to wait:
http://solutionsetcetera.com/betarequest.html
Of course, as Supercard is Macintosh only I suspect
these features are leveraging Mac-only features; although they
do look very UNIX/Linux like in their naming method.
Thanks. Yes, Mark Lucas has been doing some outstanding work on
SuperCard 4.8.
But being exclusively for OS X, as much as I've enjoyed trying out those
enhancements on my Mac I can't use them on the platform I spend most of
my time on (Ubuntu), or the one most of my users spend time on
(Windows). Mr. Lucas is, to put it politely, not fond of the Windows
API, and has no interest in Linux, so I don't see that changing anytime
soon.
I may have a lead on a long-term multi-plat solution, and for now I can
get through the first batch of a thousand or so PDFs I need to work with
using the pdftotext command line tool included in Ubuntu.
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Richard Gaskin
Fourth World Systems
Software Design and Development for the Desktop, Mobile, and the Web
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