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m_essaid
Valued Contributor
12 years ago

Opening PDF documents with Acrobat Reader and save as theses documents in .txt

Hi, I need text files from PDF documents. I tried this tuto : http://support.smartbear.com/viewarticle/55492/ but I don't managed to get the Acrobat Reader's window settings : ...
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Colin_McCrae
Community Hero
12 years ago
If you can get Acrobat Reader to be the active window, you can drop into Windows Shell and send keypress events to select all and copy to the clipboard. Then just dump the clipboard object contents into a string and you have all the text from your PDF file.



I've used this method before. Both on embedded web PDF's and standalone ones with Acrobat Reader.



Primitive really. But it works.



Unless the PDF is protected. I never did find a way to extract text from those ....