pdf data recovery

Leon Goldstein metapsych
Fri Nov 5 12:16:16 PST 2004


Shawn Tayler wrote:

>Hi Guys,
>
>Have any of you ever been able to recover text data from a pdf file?  I
>have a pdf doc with a 4 column listing on it.  I need to recover the data
>in those 4 columns.  Typing it all back in is not really an option.  The
>original doc that was used to make the pdf is not available.
>
>Any sugestions?
>
>Shawn
>
I usually open the PDF in xpdf, hold down he left button while 
"painting" the desired text, then paste it into WP8 or other word 
processor.  The formating of course will be lost, but the text will be 
there.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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