> Roger E. wrote: > > Since this seems to be Mac only, why not "do as Applescript" then select > > all, and Copy? Kay C. L. wrote > Because Preview isn't properly scriptable and you can't "Select All" > or "Copy". As Richard said, the answer is with Automator.
Automator is a GUI to "bundled" Applescript routines. May be an alternative way here to use directly Applescript, because that's easier to "adjust-if-needed": Here is a LC script and an AppleScript that together do the PDF2TXT job. It's pretty slow but it's delivering tables a little bit better "formatted" than pdfToText does and AcrobatReader's "Save as text" does. I prefer to separate the steps and watch the process (activated apps). [a] Download all files to a folder. [b] Convert all pdf files of that folder to text into that folder. [c] Work on the converted files. The following works here, running MacOS 10.11.5, with LC 6/7/8. Probably you need at least MacOS 10.6. To step [b]: [1] Allow "Accessibility" as described and put the following into a field "AScript" -- begin field -- Needs assistive access enabled: -- Before MacOS 10.11: -- System preferences/Accessibility --> Enable access for assistive d. -- MacOS 10.11 and later: -- System preferences/Security&Privacy/Accessibility --> add Livecode tell application "Preview" activate -- when activated you see menu "Edit" highlighting on/off set myPath to "xxxx" open myPath tell application "System Events" tell process "Preview" tell menu bar 1 click menu item "Select All" of menu "Edit" click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" end tell end tell end tell close document 1 end tell -- give Preview some time, else the script may appear "unstable" delay 7 -- (seconds) adjust to the speed of your machine tell application "Livecode" to activate --end field [2] Make a button "Convert PDFs" with the following script --begin script -- the path to the folder where all your PDFs reside local PDFfolder="/Users/admin/Downloads/precincts" on mouseUp set defaultfolder to PDFfolder put the files into ff filter ff with "*.pdf" put field "AS" into aScript repeat for each line f in ff put aScript into fScript put PDFfolder & "/" & f into f0 replace "//" with "/" in f0 do fScript as applescript go this stack set itemdelimiter to "." put "txt" into last item of f0 set itemdelimiter to comma put clipboardData["text"] into url ("file:" &f0) -- put f0 & cr before fld "jobsDone" -- for testing end repeat end mouseUp --end script -- View this message in context: http://runtime-revolution.278305.n4.nabble.com/Parsing-a-PDF-file-tp4706466p4706577.html Sent from the Revolution - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode