pdf data recovery

[Net Llama!]

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Leon Goldstein wrote:
> 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.

acroread lets you do something similar if you click the big T icon on the
top toolbar, and then highlight the text you wish to cut & paste.

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