>>>I cannot tell what is the "best" as it depends on how the text is displayed/incorporated into the PDF document, and what kind of fonts are used.
>>>Also it depends on what kind of application you are going to do (for in_office use, for your own, for distribution, etc).
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>>>Anyway, try pdftotext: http://www.aboutlyrics.com/Software/Download/pdftotext.php.
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>>Have you personally tried this product? I tried running the file and nothing happened, which scared me a little bit.
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>Yes, I tried it, and it worked for "my" pdf files created when reports were printed to pdf file via Win2PDF.
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>>>There were posts here explaining how to get the PDF document window handler, and how to send keystrokes to the window. In some cases you could use it too.
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>>Is this one (from you) one of the ones you mean? Sounds doable. Thanks.
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>I posted here several examples of how to get information from the pdf file when using this method.
>The problem with pdf files in your case however is that what you see as a "text" in pdf file may be not a text but a picture; and then you cannot use the pdf text extraction tool.

In this particular case I know that it is a text file or should I say a file with text.

Thank you. Alex