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Felix - 12 Mar 2004 13:20 GMT

I often have to export Word documents to text files, I do
this by simply saving the file as a .txt file.

However there are three issues that cause me problems:

1.    I require the files to be UTF-8 text files rather
than standard ANSI but I can't find an option that will
allow me to save the document as a UTF-8 encoded text file.

2.    Any text that is in a text box is not included in
the .txt file.

3.    Any tables lose their formatting i.e. they become
a list, so I have to manually change them to tab delimited.

If anyone could offer any help on the above points it
would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Felix

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Ostrov Dmitry - 15 Mar 2004 09:13 GMT

Hello, Felix

Please, check our Word2text converte
http://www.wordcnv.com/word2text.html
1. Support for both ansi and unicode output
2. No textboxes so far, but you can drop us a line so we can see wha
we can do for you.
3. Tables layout retains the same as in original documen

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Rachel Burnsed - 16 Mar 2004 21:58 GMT

You should try BCL Jade. It will allow you to convert to ANSI or
Unicode text. It should export all of the text on a page, regardless
of whether it's in a text box. (However, it will not export text that
has been added as an annotation; the text must be part of the PDF
page.)

Jade allows you to specify whether the contents you are extracting are
text, table, or graphics. Table "zones" in a PDF are exported as
delimited text (tab-delimited by default, but you can select a
different delimiter).

If you need to be able to automatically convert files to text, you
might consider using Jade COM. The COM version works best with files
that follow a standard template.

Free demos of Jade are available from our website at
http://www.bcltechnologies.com.

Rachel Burnsed
burnsed@bcltechnologies.com

> I often have to export Word documents to text files, I do
> this by simply saving the file as a .txt file.
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> Thanks,
> Felix

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