TuskenTower on 31 May 2007 23:43:46 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] pdf to text

  • From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
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  • Subject: Re: [PLUG] pdf to text
  • Date: Thu, 31 May 2007 19:43:43 -0400
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On 5/31/07, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote: 
On Thursday 31 May 2007 11:06, K.S. Bhaskar wrote:
> On 5/31/07, Art Alexion <art.alexion@verizon.net> wrote:
> [KSB] <...snip...>
>
> For me, it will be quicker to open the PDF in an old copy of windows which
>
> > includes Acrobat 4 and make comments there.  A disappointment.
>
> [KSB] A simpler solution: create a set of text documents in
> OpenOffice.orgwith the PDF pages (may need to convert formats to jpg
> or eps) one for each
> page and put the fax images as background.  Then put a frame with text
> wherever you want to add comments.  You can re-export as a PDF if you want.
> Pretty straightforward stuff.  You can even annotate pictures this way.

That's a GREAT idea. Simple and perfect. Thanks. 

How about PDFedit?
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit

It works straight out of APT on debian 4.

Amul
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