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rafx79
rafx79
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March 12, 2015
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Extract text from placed PDF file.

  • March 12, 2015
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Hi!

I'm wondering if there's a way to extract the text from a Placed PDF file or EPS file.

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Dirk Becker
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March 16, 2015

If the export formats won‘t help, I fear there is nothing straightforward.

Short from parsing the files (both formats are documented), you can render them thru a custom graphics port.

You'll have to translate glyph IDs to characters, distances to word breaks etc, and still miss bitmap text under flattened transparencies.

    rafx79
    rafx79Author
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    March 18, 2015

    Thanks Dirk.

    I thought that might be the case... But just expanding on your great idea of using export, using Acrobat I can export it to a text file, but I can't find a way to do that using the export formats exposed in InDesign. Maybe I could use the PDF library SDK within my InDesign Plugin to export it and then read the output so that I can use it for my purpose?

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