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extracting info from pdf
Curt:
-your first post after FIVE years' membership?!
Wow, you're not a man of too many words. Respect! :Thmbsup:
... http://www.pdftoword.com/default.aspx ...
... the .doc version they returned was perfect.
-StuR (September 17, 2010, 08:26 AM)
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-as it also would be if you use their desktop program: Nitro PDF Professional :up:
kalos:
-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)
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that's an honour to post in my thread
StuR:
Curt,
Yeah, I've been mostly a lurker here. I imagine there are a bunch of DC people like me: active and interested computer user both at home and at work, but not a coder, not a serious computer hobbyist, not too much interested in mucking about with hardware or modifying software or the like.
But I follow DC enthusiastically, and it's given me FARR and Screenshot Captor (which I use and talk up regularly) and a bunch of other interesting things.
Mouser is a god.
So I've held back not through reticence, but because most active posters have levels of knowledge and skill well above mine. When I feel I have something useful to add, I will.
(and now two posts in one day. It's a Trend!)
steveorg:
...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
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I'm focusing on the graphics approach that you mentioned because that just seems like the path of least resistance. Use Screenshot Captor to grab the image and your favorite graphics editor to adjust the margins to your liking.
kalos:
disadvantages of Screenshot Captor (and any other screenshot tool):
1) it captures the graphics not in the original/default resolution (if you zoom in/out the pdf, it will capture the graphics in different resolution) and this may result in a graphics without optimum resolution (too zoomed out may distort, too zoomed in may become unusable if you want it bigger)
2) it captures the graphics not in the original/default borders (since you drag the rectangular on your own) and this may result in a not well proportioned image
look this pdf editor how nice it recognizes and selects the image (see the blue borders):
but it cannot copy and paste in an MS Paint file! it cannot extract it!
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