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- Version: 3.2, 12/4/2007 05:23PM PST
maurer
We bought this a few years ago but never use it. PDF2RTFService does the same thing for free and FileJuicer, for half the price, extracts graphics as well as text.
Useless crapware, use Adobe Reader for accurate conversion - Version: 3.1, 4/5/2006 09:17AM PST
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Xeater
TextLightning works...sometimes. If you've got a PDF with simple formatting TextLightning will churn out a respectable rtf file. Feed TextLightning a slightly complex PDF file, and you get a useless rtf document filled with word fragments and line breaks every few words. But it still beats manually copying and pasting text from PDF files, right?
Oh, but imagine my surprise when I downloaded the latest version of Adobe Reader (v7.0.7), opened a complex PDF document on which TextLightning had choked, and saw a curious item in the File menu: "Save As Text..." In a few minutes I'd converted all of my most complex PDF files to txt files, and the results were PERFECT!
Adobe Reader does this for FREE, and it does it well.
Oh, but imagine my surprise when I downloaded the latest version of Adobe Reader (v7.0.7), opened a complex PDF document on which TextLightning had choked, and saw a curious item in the File menu: "Save As Text..." In a few minutes I'd converted all of my most complex PDF files to txt files, and the results were PERFECT!
Adobe Reader does this for FREE, and it does it well.
Whine - Version: 3.0, 3/8/2004 03:48PM PST
sherman1
Grow up, TheRealTerry. The demo didn't "screw up" anything, your original PDF is still intact. It gave you a perfectly reasonable demo of what the app can do. I used the demo to run several PDF documents, large and small, with and without complicated formatting. It clearly works like a charm, and I'll be sending in my money.
very useful piece of software! - Version: 2.1, 3/5/2004 05:41AM PST
kunstmaler
i use it in combination with devonThink (a database). if you need editable texts, this is it. even protected pdfs get searchable...
Couldn't test properly - Version: 2.1, 1/31/2004 11:59PM PST
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TheRealTerry
This is the worst demo setup I have ever tried. Screw up my text with the word demo until I pay? How about I not use your product? Good job, one sale lost.
BlueGecko8: because I… - Version: 2.0.1, 9/24/2002 02:04AM PST
_teabone_
got two accounts, one at home one at work and I lost the password for one of them ;-)
And teabone's user… - Version: 2.0.1, 9/23/2002 04:45PM PST
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BlueGecko8
name changes from _teabone_ to teabone because?... Color me purple, but I'm suspicous.
Very responsive author.… - Version: 2.0.1, 9/23/2002 01:01PM PST
teabone
He fixed a problem with german umlauts in pdfs created by pdfLaTeX within a single day. I'll pay for it right away.
How does the… - Version: 1.0b, 9/17/2002 12:20PM PST
rcfa
formatting quality compare to opening up the pdf in Acrobat and selecting all text there with the text selection tool, and then doing a copy paste?
