Is it possible to print the document to a plain test printer or file and then use LowLevel file methods to parse the report into a table?

Glenn

>>>>>Hi,
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>>>>>I received a PDF file from a client (with names and addresses) and he asked me to create a table with them. I have Acrobat Reader 4 but it can´t export, I tried with Word but... Is there any way ?
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>>>>>Regards,
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>>>>José,
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>>>>The new Adobe 4 has a "copy to clipboard" feature. You can then paste the content as an RTF into a word document. If the document is well structured, you should be able to achieve acceptable results, but frankly, you'd better ask your customer to provide you another format.
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>>>>If you want, send me your file and I'll try.
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>>>>José
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>>>Thanks again José/Erik, but I found a Text toolbar button that enables me to select text and copy it to the clipboard.
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>>>Regards,
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>>After Jose C. posted that the new reader will do this, I was delighted and went to check it out myself (you used to have to buy 3rd party software just to be able to cut and paste). While the new feature is pretty cool for text extraction, I think it's still pretty useless for data extraction. When you cut formatted text in column, it loses its formatting when pasted to excel or another text file. Pretty weak.
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>>If this will work for you, fine, but there are aftermarket tools that work much better. The one I have used is called Red Wing, but I'm sure there are others...
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>Agreed,
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>The output resembles an ASCII file. But I did not check what was the delimiter.
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>José