On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 06:32:28 -0700 Dave Fisher <wave4d...@comcast.net> wrote:
> If all that you want to do is retrieve the text then you should look into > Apache Tika. It’s a programmers tool that does text extraction including OCR > of PDF. > > Tika.apache.org/ > > Regards, > Dave One can also use the free online service of www.zamzar.com, which will take a PDF and convert to .odt (or other) formats Rory > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On Sep 22, 2019, at 6:16 AM, Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> wrote: > > > > Copy to unsubscribed poster: > > > > On Sun, 22 Sep 2019 08:02:28 -0400 > > "David Myers" <get2le...@optonline.net> wrote: > > > >> Da'anzho Apache, (in the immortal words of Yogi Berra, You can look it up) > >> > >> > >> > >> It's prob'ly been ten year since I logged in, maybe longer, so I tried to > >> register, BUT . my email is already in use, so I tried to log in, BUT . the > >> two most common user names I use weren't recognized, BUT . you don't have a > >> link to email me my username upon some further identification. > >> > >> > >> > >> Let me ask what I want to know. I wrote a 425 page novel 30 years ago > >> before computers that almost got published, BUT . merger mania intervened, > >> and those editors were offed. Staples converted it to PDF. Adobe > >> supposedly converted that to Word, BUT . only the first 14 pages are > >> editable, and eve they had every kind of typographical reconfiguration like > >> bunching words together, some of which I could space apart, others I had to > >> paste and redo, as well as 50 megaspaces between words on every page that I > >> had to backarrow. > >> > >> The rest reverts to Picture Tools in purple above the task > >> bar with that insidious cross of theirs everywhere I move the cursor, like > >> the target fixture in a sub periscope screen, aiming to blow up my whole > >> document AND Word with it. > >> > >> > >> > >> I don't recall seeing Apache Word or Writing or Office as an option in the > >> Adobe export menu. IS THERE ANYTHING YOU CAN DO, SO I CAN EDIT MY OLD > >> NOVEL? > >> > >> > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > >> > >> > >> David Myers > >> > >> 631-724-5675 > >> > >> get2le...@optonline.net <mailto:get2le...@optonline.net> > > > > This posting gives information on how to obtain access to an older Forum > > account > > https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/viewtopic.php?f=50&t=527 > > > > -- > > Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > 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 > -- Rory O'Farrell <ofarr...@iol.ie> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
