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glene77is

Joined: 17 Aug 2010 Posts: 123 Location: Memphis, TN, USA
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Posted: Thu 15 Nov 2012, 17:10 Post subject:
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@disciple
disciple wrote: | Quote: | I commonly use PDFedit to extract the ENTIRE text of a PDF file,
for a copy-paste into Libre-Office Write. |
Do you get better results that way than just copying and pasting from your pdf viewer? |
My PDF viewer does not allow copy/paste.
I commonly run PDFedit (lucid) then load a multiple page PDF file,
(like some physics technical article),
then export all text to outl.txt
then run LibreOffice Write and load the out.txt.
From there I can format it to suit my vision,
cut & cull and edit the portions I want for reference.
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6781 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Thu 15 Nov 2012, 19:48 Post subject:
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Quote: | My PDF viewer does not allow copy/paste. |
Oh, that's very primitive. Unless it actually does but the pdf is protected.
Quote: | I commonly run PDFedit (lucid) then load a multiple page PDF file, (like some physics technical article), then export all text to outl.txt |
Ah.
You might also be interested in pdftotext with the improvements from pdfedit. It is normally distributed as part of a "pdfedit tools" package, although I don't think I've seen a .pet version.
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rcrsn51

Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 11889 Location: Stratford, Ontario
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Posted: Thu 15 Nov 2012, 20:14 Post subject:
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glene77is wrote: | I commonly run PDFedit (lucid) then load a multiple page PDF file, (like some physics technical article),then export all text to outl.txt |
PeasyPDF v2.3 can extract the text from a PDF document.
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glene77is

Joined: 17 Aug 2010 Posts: 123 Location: Memphis, TN, USA
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Posted: Fri 16 Nov 2012, 10:36 Post subject:
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"easyPDF v2.3"
rcrsn51 is always a good advisor !
but, this time, "easyPDF v2.3" did not execute fully in Slacko Puppy 3.3.
I have Puppy 5.25 in a subdir.
I have Puppy Slacko in a subdir.
Both share data subdir.
I just reboot and select which ever I need.
You obviously have more experience than me.
Thanks for the try !
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Sajid
Joined: 20 Nov 2012 Posts: 1
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Posted: Thu 13 Dec 2012, 02:52 Post subject:
PDF editor Subject description: I am very appreciate your site,and your article is useful, |
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Is there a way with Puppy to install only Lib re Office Draw? Or do I have to install the entire suite? If you have any confusion then you connect the site administrator by PDF reader . he solve your problem . http://www.pdf.com/Home
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Dromeno
Joined: 12 Sep 2008 Posts: 543
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Posted: Tue 05 Feb 2013, 15:49 Post subject:
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I like the Foxit PDF editor best. It is a windows application but it is small and works great via wine.
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musher0

Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 12087 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada
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Posted: Thu 16 Oct 2014, 23:12 Post subject:
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Hello, people.
Tip from the penniless editor
I've perused some of the above suggestions, but the following is the best
no-cost (aka free or freeware) solution I've found so far:
* split your PDF in separate pages (a technique also known as "burst")
with pdfsam -- in its own folder
* install the most recent version of the PDF extension in Open/Libre Office
* edit your doc page by page in Open/Libre Office
* export your edited page as a pdf under a slightly different name
* once you've finished editing all your pages, use the "merge" function in
pdfsam to reconstitute your edited pdf pages into a complete document.
The above works reasonably well if you only need to edit lines, for touch-
ups, because in this context, the OpenOffice extension allows you to work
your text line by line. If you try to edit more than one line at a time with
this OO extension, you'll likely create a mess...
For long sentences, paragraphs and/or more extensive edits, it will always
be a lot easier for you if your client can send you the original *.doc
document to work on. Working with the entire document in Open Office,
you can use the follow-up function (or not), and edit your text as you
ordinarily do with all the OO features at your finger tips.
You simply export your entire edited document as a PDF file once you've
finished (again, under a slightly different filename).
I hope this helps someone. BFN.
musher0
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References:
PDFSAM: http://www.pdfsam.org/
OO PDF extension: http://extensions.openoffice.org/en/project/pdf-import-apache-openoffice
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musher0

Joined: 04 Jan 2009 Posts: 12087 Location: Gatineau (Qc), Canada
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Posted: Sun 26 Oct 2014, 01:13 Post subject:
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It's like what real-life publishing used to be 30 years ago:
on the galleys (the PDF file being the modern equivalent), you only edited
the few remaining typos; the writers strived to make the text coming out
of the Wang Word Processor as error-free as possible. You didn't edit on
screen then, you printed your article triple-spaced and edited it on paper.
I remember that for a particular magazine, we were three editors in a
row reading and editing the whole content one after another, each of us
having a pencil of a different color. The secretary then introduced the
colored changes in the document file, and only after that was done, was
the corrected content sent to the type-setter ("Barb", not to name her)!
And there were still 5-6 typos left in the printed mag -- against a total of
+/- 30,000 words per issue, mind you...
My point here is: edit 3-4-5 times (don't be shy!) in the word-processor
document. Don't even try to do any substantial editing in the PDF file, it's
counter-productive; edit only the glaring errors in your PDF.
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tallboy

Joined: 21 Sep 2010 Posts: 907 Location: Oslo, Norway
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Posted: Tue 28 Oct 2014, 01:21 Post subject:
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https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Tue 28 Oct 2014, 01:36 Post subject:
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Whenever I have to populate a PDF form I use Xournal. It's included in FatDog.
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/
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rufwoof
Joined: 24 Feb 2014 Posts: 2258
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Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2014, 16:32 Post subject:
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Quote: | not much help if your on slacko ; -) |
In the pdfshuffler sub folder from here https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4MbXu8cvE_WRVE4Y0FlZUgzcTg&usp=sharing there's a version of pdfshuffler that works ok under Slacko 5.3.3 (all in a single SFS). poppler (PDF rendering) pet may also be required (also in that directory), but I personally found that not necessary if you have evince (pdf viewer) installed (and poppler seems to cause conflicts/problems if its loaded in addition to evince).
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Geoffrey

Joined: 30 May 2010 Posts: 2346 Location: Queensland
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Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2014, 19:05 Post subject:
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MasterPDFeditor, a Qt commercial product, but the Linux-based version is free for non-commercial use.
http://code-industry.net/free-pdf-editor.php
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smokey01

Joined: 30 Dec 2006 Posts: 2681 Location: South Australia
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Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2014, 20:34 Post subject:
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rufwoof wrote: | Quote: | not much help if your on slacko ; -) |
In the pdfshuffler sub folder from here https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B4MbXu8cvE_WRVE4Y0FlZUgzcTg&usp=sharing there's a version of pdfshuffler that works ok under Slacko 5.3.3 (all in a single SFS). poppler (PDF rendering) pet may also be required (also in that directory), but I personally found that not necessary if you have evince (pdf viewer) installed (and poppler seems to cause conflicts/problems if its loaded in addition to evince). |
Here ya go then.
http://smokey01.com/software/slacko-5.7/Xournal-0.4.8-x86.pet
This works on slacko-5.7
The help document to get you started.
http://xournal.sourceforge.net/manual.html
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disciple
Joined: 20 May 2006 Posts: 6781 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
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Posted: Mon 24 Nov 2014, 21:56 Post subject:
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Does the current version of masterpdfeditor still make the pdf fonts ugly?
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Don't look to bad, though the "i" can get a little close to the letters on the right of it at different zoom levels.
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