John The solution is much simpler, at least on a Mac. Simply mark, copy, and paste to wherever you want the text to be. However, you loose formatting. As to spreadsheets, copy the table to a temporary file, replace whatever separates the cell contents with a comma or semicolon, and read the temporary file as a .CSV file. On 2. Jul 2014, at 22:21 , Baccara <bbacc...@tstonramp.com> wrote:
> Rory O'Farrell wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Jul 2014 13:39:12 -0400 >> "Thomas, John" <john.tho...@daytonohio.gov> wrote: >> >> >>> Can open office translate .pdf files to spreadsheets or word documents? >>> >>> >>> Sincerely, >>> >>> >>> John Thomas >>> >>> >> >> No. You need to use an OCR (Optical Character recognition) application to do >> that. For spreadsheets and other work involving figures most careful >> proof-reading of the OCR output is required. >> >> > OCR - does that equate to Adobe creates an image (jpg or ?) from any document > "printed to / saved as" a pdf document? > PDF document can be opened with a pdf reader (free from Adobe and other > sources), content highlighted, copied then pasted to another program such as > OO Writer; MS Word then saved in the new format? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
