Re: PDF to splf

Ah - I had not connected with the idea that the PDF came from another SPLF - most of my experience with getting text out of PDFs is when there are code samples - so my statement should be qualified with "...might end up...".

Vern

On 4/9/2019 3:17 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

I've found it to be fairly accurate if the original was a "printed" fixed format document Vern. If you do it with an MS Word produced invoice all bets are off - but spool file output pdfs went OK last I tried.


Jon Paris

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On Apr 9, 2019, at 4:37 PM, Vernon Hamberg <vhamberg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

GhostScript running in PASE might have a driver to "print" to text - this ***might*** keep the alignment of characters - I don't know - just copying text out of a PDF ends up really different from the original.

HTH
Vern

On 4/9/2019 3:01 PM, Jay Vaughn wrote:

Thanks Jon.

I realize it’s quite a bass-ackwards request.

Jay

On Apr 9, 2019, at 3:58 PM, Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Only way I know is to create a text file from the pdf then copy that to spool.


Jon Paris

www.partner400.com
www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On Apr 9, 2019, at 1:19 PM, Jay Vaughn <jeffersonvaughn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have a customer that has generated a splf for us to look at. They sent it to us as a pdf.

We have a joblog analyzer tool that works only with splf‘ son the current system.

Is there a fairly simple way to move/convert that pdf to a new splf on our system, so that we may run the tool over it?

Tia

Hay
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