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<title><![CDATA[By: Joe Momma]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67129</link>
<description><![CDATA[#54 - "This is a converter *to* pdf, not *from* pdf."

Isn't that what I said?  That's what #20 was asking for, something that does just the opposite of this giveaway, a.k.a. converting *to* PDF.]]></description>
<pubDate>Thu, 09 Oct 2008 18:25:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Francis Vandenplas]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67127</link>
<description><![CDATA[# 82 Hey AxCut you had me perform a lengthy search for a "Zanzibar" converter on the Web, until I realized you meant... Zamzar, the online converter I once visited! I should have known ;-)

Anyway, thanks for the editing suggestions.

# 45 I don't see any difference with the "Example" text file when I open it in Wordpad, besides the fact the latter (as does MS Word 2002) uses Courier New, a font that makes the output appear clearer though.

To All. 
In my comment (#34) about conversion respecting the layout, I forgot to mention the "emptiness" of the help file. Thinking I was doing something wrong (even an old bat eventually will!) I hoped to find an answer her. Alas, the left pane and the tabs of the help file are populated. The right pane isn't. So I tried the "Internet Homepage" line in the "Help" menu: no link! I then paid a visit to their site. No "Help" details there either, only a "Support" tab leading to a "Technical Support" form. Here I didn't bother, as we all know GAOTD nice offerings are... unsupported ones!]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 08:10:15 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Mykee]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67126</link>
<description><![CDATA[This program not support Unicode characters! Here is a special words, these include ALL special hungarian characters:
árvíztűrő tükörfúrógép
Just test with this, and look...]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 02:53:32 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: AxCut]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67125</link>
<description><![CDATA[I'm a mathematician and I get a lot of journal articles in pdf. Most of them contain complex math equations and are usually created using LaTex (actually this is a requisite for Ph.D. disserttion) and then printed to .pdf.

Latex is a typesetting set of programs (based om Tex) and learning to write journal articles with it is not an easy task.

So I tried today's offering (I used Returnil because I don't like my dll's registered in the wrong places) and fed it a .pdf article titled "One path to acoustic cloaking" which is chocked full of math formulas and what it gave out was garbage. I didn't expect the math equations to be readable, but the text was horrible. So I restarted my computer and Pdf-To-Text became history.

I got curious about some of the postings here, so I tried some of the products mentioned here. Zanzibar beat them all hands down. Conversion to text garbled the equations, but like I said before you can't expect a program to create readable complex Math equations in plain text.

So I converted to .rtf and opened it with Open Office. I was astounded. 90% of the Math equations were identical and of course, editable. Thanks a million to the person who posted Zanzibar's web page. I have a feeling that Zanzibar and I are going to be good friends.

AxCut]]></description>
<pubDate>Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:51:24 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Baytownmom]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67124</link>
<description><![CDATA[#17 this was re-offered while some of us had no electricity due to IKE.  I missed it as well.  14 days with no electric.  I was wanting to try that out.  Maybe GAoTD will re-offer this for us poor survivors that lost so much to the hurricane.  (sob sob - did that help?)  

Just kidding, like most comments tell you, it still messes up the formatting, so, think on the bright side, they still need humans for something, hehe.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:42:14 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: netshortcut]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67123</link>
<description><![CDATA[Hi BBGamer (#20), as mentioned before:  I'd spent hours browsing for a PDF converter, and tried a few. Some imprinted watermarks, and some produced output with garbled characters--totally unreadable! doPDF ( only 1.4MB--download it from: snurl.com/3tz92 ) has been working flawlessly printing out PDF files, such as this ( snurl.com/3tz8g ) from a Chinese text file without any watermarks!

If you set--1&gt; right click on any PDF files, 2&gt; click "Always use the selected program to open this kind of file," and 3&gt; browse to select 
CoolPDF to open PDF files, they will be opened immediately after doPDF has done conversion for you to check if the output is satisfactory. CoolPDF ( snurl.com/3tz8t ) works as a single executable. Its size is only 626KB! CoolPDF saves PDF into Text, JPG, etc!

Using FireFox, I decided to use the addon--SreenGrab ( snurl.com/3tz8o  ) to take a screenshot of a WHOLE page. The beauty is that the jpg output can be uploaded automatically into my registered ImageBAM--a free image hosting account. Hence, no real estate of my hard disk is occupied, and the screen shots can be accessed in my ImageBAM account anywhere I go. Links for HTML and others are also generated for web deployment.

In compariosn, output in JPG and PDF are about the same size. 

The latest versions are uploaded for download from the links given above. They are all freewares!]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:23:20 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Terry_in_Texas]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67122</link>
<description><![CDATA[TO 76. Fubar:

Thanks for confirming that today's software would be useless for me, as I suspected would be the case. Most PDF's I get are scanned images which have to be OCR'd in order to work with them. 

For "regular" PDF's, there are plenty of free converters, most of which handle them just fine. 

At the $50 price-point of today's software, I was really hoping it would OCR, since ABBYY's PDF Transformer v1 costs the same and does do OCR.

Considering the other things that have been said about this vendor's software and the changes it does to the system, I'm glad I didn't try it out only to find out it didn't work.

Again, thank you! It's helpful users like you who really make GOTD a worthwhile site to visit daily! :-)]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 21:16:02 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: PF]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67121</link>
<description><![CDATA[The GOTD version is different from the licensed version.  If one puts a link to pdf2text.exe in XP's Send To folder or if one attempts to run pdf2text.exe from the command line, as in


C:\Program Files\PDF to Text\pdf2text.exe example.pdf

the program responds with the popup

<b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Command-line mode is enabled only in the licensed version.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Please purchase PDF to TEXT at http://www.quick-pdf.com/</b>]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:38:30 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: mrmann88]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67120</link>
<description><![CDATA[#70...No, that is not what this software does, or claims to do.  You are looking for OCR software, which can attempt to read text from an image file (that is all that a scanned PDF is - an image file wrapped in a PDF shell.

This software is for true PDF files (ie printed from a word doc, etc.) only.  It appears to do what it was designed to do.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:25:27 -0400</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[By: Fubar]]></title>
<link>https://www.giveawayoftheday.com/pdf-to-text/#comment-67119</link>
<description><![CDATA[#47, Terry_in_Texas, I haven't investigated freeware PDF OCR packages.  Some people have mentioned a couple of freeware OCR apps, but they don't support PDF AFAIK.  For serious PDF and OCR (they have other stuff, including the top voice-recognition app), I recommend Nuance products, but they're commercial.  Their <a href="http://www.nuance.com/imaging/" rel="nofollow">imaging products</a> all support OCR and PDF.  They all overlap in functionality, but also have differences.  While some of the products are expensive, after you get any Nuance product, they'll generally offer you the top version of any of their other products for $100 (this is especially true if you have the top version of any of their products).

They have <a href="http://nuance.com/omnipage/matrix/" rel="nofollow">OmniPage</a>, <a href="http://www.nuance.com/paperport/matrix/" rel="nofollow">PaperPort</a>, and <a href="http://nuance.com/pdfconverter/matrix/" rel="nofollow">PDF Converter</a> (these links are to the feature comparison matrices rather than the main pages--note that you must click "Next page" at the bottom of each PDF Converter page, it goes on for six pages).  Each contains older or standard versions of some of the other products.  OmniPage is the serious OCR app, the other products contain older and lesser versions of it (of course, they'll use a newer version, if installed).  PaperPort is for those who want to organize all of their documents as PDFs.  PDF Converter is more serious about PDF conversion and editing.  All of Nuance's imaging products are heavily PDF-oriented, all do OCR.]]></description>
<pubDate>Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:24:05 -0400</pubDate>
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