I need it to be in the original quality-kalos (September 12, 2010, 12:58 PM)
PDF Converter 7 (http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-product/pdf/index.htm)-daddydave (September 13, 2010, 02:52 PM)
PDF Converter 7 (http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-product/pdf/index.htm)-daddydave (September 13, 2010, 02:52 PM)
This is one of the Nuance ones. I have Able2Extract. Darwin kindly did a test on his Nuance Pro (more expensive) on the complicated front page of a World patent, for me to compare. Nuance did a slightly better job, but there wasn't a lot in it. Able2Extract in fact uses technology licensed from Nuance.-rjbull (September 13, 2010, 03:03 PM)
Sweet. The test was with the free version of Able2Extract, I take it?I didn't see any free version of Able2Extract when I went to their website. Or was your statement meant tongue-in-cheek?-daddydave (September 13, 2010, 03:11 PM)
Sweet. The test was with the free version of Able2Extract, I take it?I didn't see any free version of Able2Extract when I went to their website. Or was your statement meant tongue-in-cheek?-daddydave (September 13, 2010, 03:11 PM)-cyberdiva (September 13, 2010, 03:45 PM)
I need it to be in the original quality-kalos (September 12, 2010, 12:58 PM)
IMO this requirement will push you to spend money (and even then, still no guarantee it will be in the original quality). PDF Converter 7 (http://www.nuance.com/for-business/by-product/pdf/index.htm) (the $49.99 version) appears to have the ability to "Convert PDF and XPS documents into all Microsoft Office formats in a click." I have never used it, but I know some people swear by the Pro version of it.-daddydave (September 13, 2010, 02:52 PM)
I believe the $100 PRO version is needed if .XPS must be included.-Curt (September 13, 2010, 06:33 PM)
The test was with the free version of Able2Extract, I take it?-daddydave (September 13, 2010, 03:11 PM)
Oh, and the reason why I chose Able2Extract over Nuance at the time - pre-test, as it happened - was because Nuance directed me to their UK shop, where they translate $US into £UK one-to-one. I might have missed a slightly better program, but they missed my business through greed and taking UK residents for fools.-rjbull (September 14, 2010, 02:52 PM)
is there a free PDF editor/converter that works well? many converters fail to convert properly to doc, even Acrobat
if not, any paid one that is really good?-kalos (September 14, 2010, 10:43 AM)
... http://www.pdftoword.com/default.aspx ...
... the .doc version they returned was perfect.-StuR (September 17, 2010, 08:26 AM)
-your first post after FIVE years' membership?!
Wow, you're not a man of too many words. Respect! :Thmbsup:-Curt (September 17, 2010, 10:27 AM)
...extract a table and save it as a graphics file...
...I will incorporate it in a PowerPoint or MS Office document...
...I need it to be in the original quality...
...not to use a crop tool, because I need the optimum margins, etc-kalos
This may depend on the file - but with adobe reader I just selected an image in a pdf (via drag + select the area around it, then "copy image" in the context menu). I was able to paste the image in Evernote and MS Paint.-tomos (September 20, 2010, 04:16 PM)
I dont think even the pdf reader will give you the option to show images at their original resolution - I suspect there could even be images with different resolutions within the one file. So I think you cant expect Screenshot captor (or other) to do that (I mean considering it's the pdf reader has the file open/displayed)-tomos (September 20, 2010, 04:16 PM)
This may depend on the file - but with adobe reader I just selected an image in a pdf (via drag + select the area around it, then "copy image" in the context menu). I was able to paste the image in Evernote and MS Paint.-tomos (September 20, 2010, 04:16 PM)
this is screenshot capture tool, with the above mentioned disadvantages-kalos (September 20, 2010, 04:46 PM)
My point stands though: if you want to get the best quality image, copy it out of the pdf reader. You cannot expect the screenshot app to manipulate the pdf reader to give the best possible display - especially if the pdf reader itself cannot even do this.let's say ok-tomos (September 20, 2010, 05:32 PM)
on the other hand, as steveorg says, most pdf creators are focused on making the file smaller so the original image quality in the pdf might not be so good anyways...-tomos (September 20, 2010, 05:32 PM)
now let's be a bit practical
what is the best time to copy in order to have the graphics in best quality? when pdf file is zoomed at 150% ? at 200 % ? at 300 % ?-kalos (September 21, 2010, 10:09 AM)
I don't have a problem with price, if a program can do what I want
zooming an A4 PDF at 100% makes the PDF not to fill the whole 15" screen
and then taking a screenshot at that zoom, results in a small low resolution photo, it doesnt maximize the info that the graphics file can contain-kalos (September 22, 2010, 12:18 PM)
I don't have a problem with price, if a program can do what I want-kalos (September 22, 2010, 12:18 PM)
If you could give an example pdf to do this operation, perhaps we all could experiment with the various tools each of us has.-plus of course a much more precise description of what the job is.-cmpm (September 21, 2010, 10:52 AM)
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pdfimages(1) pdfimages(1)
NAME
pdfimages - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor (version
3.02)
SYNOPSIS
pdfimages [options] PDF-file image-root
DESCRIPTION
Pdfimages saves images from a Portable Document Format (PDF) file as
Portable Pixmap (PPM), Portable Bitmap (PBM), or JPEG files.
Pdfimages reads the PDF file, scans one or more pages, PDF-file, and
writes one PPM, PBM, or JPEG file for each image, image-root-nnn.xxx,
where nnn is the image number and xxx is the image type (.ppm, .pbm,
.jpg).
NB: pdfimages extracts the raw image data from the PDF file, without
performing any additional transforms. Any rotation, clipping, color
inversion, etc. done by the PDF content stream is ignored.
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i am also in search of a way to estimate the optimum resolution before taking the snapshot-kalos (October 08, 2010, 03:24 PM)
you could enlarge the image as much as you can before taking the screenshot. That's your best quality there.-tomos (October 08, 2010, 04:07 PM)
you could enlarge the image as much as you can before taking the screenshot. That's your best quality there.-tomos (October 08, 2010, 04:07 PM)
how to calculate this? in which zoom can you extract the above scheme?-kalos (October 08, 2010, 04:25 PM)
-the picture will not be vector, because kalos is talking about taking a screenshot; a bitmap. If the files are like the test file, I *imagine* size 150% will be fine. But it doesn't make sense to talk about borders; since there are no genuine pictures, there will be no natural borders.-Curt (October 08, 2010, 07:46 PM)
if the image is vector (NOT a pixel image) simply enlarge it as much as you can on your monitor, then take a screenshot.-tomos (October 08, 2010, 05:53 PM)
-the picture will not be vector, because kalos is talking about taking a screenshot; a bitmap.
[...]-Curt (October 08, 2010, 07:46 PM)
-zoom out, all you want, and use your screen capture application.-Curt (October 29, 2010, 10:09 AM)
"a screen capture app that does a good scrolling capture"Oh, come on now!
like??-kalos (October 29, 2010, 12:46 PM)
1st: Can't pdf be saved as html? ... Advantage: text is html, images are saved separately.-TomD101 (March 29, 2011, 12:06 PM)
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