PDF to Text possibility thru clipboard

[Jay_Shakir@adobeforums.com]

I have been trying to convert PDF to text and I thank the Acrobat team for the help which was more like an instant chat :)

I realize one way to do it is Plugins, but then there is another option
1) Select-All in a PDF page ( i guess i can do that)
2) Copy to the clipboard of a PDF page ( i guess i can do that)
3) Fetch from Clipboard to a new text file (possible?)

I can do step 1 & 2, but for step 3 is this a SDK question or is this some general Windows API qn independet from SDK. If it is a possibility with Acrobat SDK , pls give direction and related-samples.

Thanks in Advance.

[Reinhard_Franke@adobeforums.com]

3) Fetch from Clipboard to a new text file (possible?)

No problem. But depends on the software you use to control Acrobat(VB, VBS, JS, ..). You should ask there how the catch text from clip.

best regards, Reinhard

[PDL@adobeforums.com]

JS doesn't have access to the system clipboard. If you're using VB it's fairly simple once the data is in the clipboard (assuming plain text data, not rich text):

Dim objClip As IDataObject = Clipboard.GetDataObject()
Dim strCopyText As String

If objClip.GetDataPresent(DataFormats.Text) Then _
strCopyText = objClip.GetData(DataFormats.Text);

[Jay_Shakir@adobeforums.com]

Thanks, all set, im taking the plugin path.

[MrRyck@adobeforums.com]

> Acrobat JS doesn't have access to the system clipboard. If you're using

VB it's fairly simple once the data is in the clipboard (assuming plain
text data, not rich text): >




Just one warning - best to leave the PC alone when it is running this.

If you run this script in the background and use the PC you or some other program may over-write the system clipboard probably without your knowledge. You'll never know where nor how much bad text data you'll be saving.