WanderngFool
Active Expediter
I was trying to get text out of a pdf into Excel today and I stumbled on this little guy. Open source and free.
Xpdf: Home
It's not a gui Windows app. It's old school. You control it by giving it command line switches. But therein lies the simplicity and the beauty of it.
1. Download the program and extract it to c:\program files\Xpdf
2. Open notepad and enter this one-liner
3. Save the file as pdftotext.bat <-- the important thing is the .bat extension.
4. In Windows Explorer drag 'n drop a pdf on to your .bat file.
5. PdfTotext will do it's thing and a file will appear with the same name as the one you dragged & dropped but a txt extension.
6. If that doesn't put the pdf into the right format for you, try the other command line options. "-fixed 1" is a good one to try next. There's info about the switches in the program's doc folder.
Qtrly IFTA just got a little easier.
Xpdf: Home
It's not a gui Windows app. It's old school. You control it by giving it command line switches. But therein lies the simplicity and the beauty of it.
1. Download the program and extract it to c:\program files\Xpdf
2. Open notepad and enter this one-liner
3. Save the file as pdftotext.bat <-- the important thing is the .bat extension.
4. In Windows Explorer drag 'n drop a pdf on to your .bat file.
5. PdfTotext will do it's thing and a file will appear with the same name as the one you dragged & dropped but a txt extension.
6. If that doesn't put the pdf into the right format for you, try the other command line options. "-fixed 1" is a good one to try next. There's info about the switches in the program's doc folder.
Qtrly IFTA just got a little easier.