Tim I have to admit that my experience is evidently limited, I only have experience with the text type of pdf file. I was not aware of the “image” type of pdf file. Thank you for that information!
Tom On 6. Jul 2014, at 07:04 , Tim Deaton <t...@timdeaton.org> wrote: > Much depends on the type of pdf file. > > If the pdf file is an image (what you normally get when you scan a document > into the computer), then a program with OCR capabilities is needed to try to > recognize the text in the image and either add that text to the pdf document > or save that text into a document that text editors, word processors, or > spreadsheets can use. (I use Nuance Power PDF on Windows - a commercial > product - for that, and know of other commercial alternatives. Other people > here may know of open source alternatives.) > > If the pdf file is NOT just a scanned document, then it probably actually > contains the text (not just a photo) in the file. In that case, you can > highlight the text you want to copy and do a copy-and-paste into Writer. As > Rory wrote, spreadsheet use may need much more care. Special-purpose > programs like Acrobat, Nuance, Foxit, etc. can make such tasks easier -- but > they still need careful proof-reading. > > -- Tim > =========================== > > > On 7/3/2014 3:05 AM, Tom Backer Johnsen wrote: >> 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 >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org > Tom Backer Johnsen Søndre Steinkjellersmauet 7 5003 Bergen Mobil: +47 9169 3346 Email: backer(at)psych.uib.no --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
