[senit] converting PDF files

We've tried cutting and pasting and just got

some pdfs without security (file-properties) seem to
save out well as text by going file-save as text.
maybe ask the author to remove any security for you?
david
--- Alice Chenneour Randall
<alice.chenneour at btinternet.com> wrote:

> We've tried cutting and pasting and just got
> absolute rubbish so we were rather puzzled about but
> thankyou.
> 
> Claire Barnes <clairebarnes at willowdeneschool.co.uk>
> wrote:  Hi Alice
> 
> You can actually cut and paste text from pdf files
> (e.g into MS Word) but
> you lose all formatting and usually all the
> diagrams.
> 
> May or may not be appropriate in this instance?
> 
> Claire Barnes
> Willow Dene School
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alice Chenneour Randall
> [mailto:alice.chenneour at btinternet.com] 
> Sent: 10 January 2008 21:54
> To: aph at misnet.co.uk; senit at lists.becta.org.uk
> Subject: RE: [senit] converting PDF files
> 
> We need to prepare material in braille using
> transcription software, remove
> shaded text unwanted diagrams etc.
> Alice
> 
> Alex Hammerstein wrote:
> The idea behind pdf files is that they CANT be
> changed.
> 
> How do you want to manipulate the material?
> 
> Alex
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
> [mailto:senit-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf
> Of Alice Chenneour
> Randall
> Sent: 10 January 2008 20:45
> To: senit
> Subject: [senit] converting PDF files
> 
> I'm sorry that this might appear obvious to all you
> technical wizards out
> there - we are a VI service and have been relatively
> fortunate in recieving
> the PDF files of a number of text books, dierctly
> from the publishers. The
> difficulty is that we are having no success in
> converting these files into a
> format that allows us to manipulate the material.
> Any help would be very
> welcome.
> Many thanks
> Alice Chenneour Randall
> Oxfordshire VISS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 


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