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> On Sep 1, 2015, at 14:27 , SUBSCRIBE MACSCRPT Inyo55 <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Using OSX Yosemite.
> I installed the PDFTOTEXT unix shell program and it works fine.....it converts non-bitmap PDF files to TEXT files.
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> I am trying to take the result of this conversion.....the Text file.....and use it in the next step of my Applescript.
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> Here is what I have for the conversion part:
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> set myfile to choose file with prompt "Choose PDF to convert to TEXT"
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> set myfile to myfile as alias
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> do shell script "/usr/local/bin/pdftotext " & quoted form of POSIX path of myfile
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> The above creates the text file and puts it in the directory from where the pdf file was chosen, but I cannot "grab" the text file to use it in the next step, which is a grep search.
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> I tried to set an object for the result:
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> set mytextfile to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/pdftotext " & quoted form of POSIX path of myfile
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> This did not work, nothing was returned. Any suggestions?
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> thanks,
> Bob Rutledge
Did you try Skim?
It is free and scriptable.
I believe Smile also reads pdf, I used to create pdf all the time.
Deivy Petrescu
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