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Offline euklides

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about Converting .pdf to plain text
« on: April 30, 2021, 04:36:47 am »
Please seehttps://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=3357.0   (locked subjet)

Here in France, we are receiving more and more computerized till receipts in pdf/txt format. No paper: ecology and saving trees...

I find the little program from Richard to convert pdf to plain text very useful to convert these little tickets into a txt format and archive them easily.

By the way: for serial processing with multiple pdf, you can close the current pdf at screen with the command "_SCREENPRINT CHR$(23) " and go so to the next pdf

« Last Edit: April 30, 2021, 04:39:40 am by euklides »
Why not yes ?

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Re: about Converting .pdf to plain text
« Reply #1 on: April 30, 2021, 11:30:14 am »
That's a nice hack, with the ctrl C and all.  Surely there are dozens of 'pdf2txt' commandline apps you can SHELL to, might be more robust.

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Re: about Converting .pdf to plain text
« Reply #2 on: April 30, 2021, 12:50:12 pm »
Free and easy to use: https://online2pdf.com/

Does convert various text formats into PDF or vice versa.
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