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Sunday Open Thread | 170 comments (170 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

It depends on the .pdf file. Older ones that are simply scans will not work, but there should be a cursor icon you can hit with a mouse or text prompt as its symbol. That'll allow you to highlight it.

Also, you may not be able to do copy-and-paste with the mouse, but it should work using Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V (or the Mac equivalent).

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by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 03:56:57 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (none / 1)

This an article from a NY Times article of 1978 that I got from the Times archives. It looks like it's from a microfilm of the original Time's newspaper article.

Hey, Grandma Moses started late!

by LEP (rafifoon@yahoo.com) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 04:02:06 PM EST
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You might be able to get it by using the Image cursor. Use it to draw a box round the part you want, right click and choose Copy.

But it might not work...

If you have a scanner, print the pdf, scan the page you want and get a .jpg you can reduce to the quote you want.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 04:08:50 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

For an old PDF or one which effectively is an image, screen capture software is best. That means you get an image, not text you can paste.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 04:09:06 PM EST
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Re: Sunday Open Thread (4.00 / 2)

There's some decent Open S OCR software out there. I used to use OCR quite a lot, but these days it is rare that I cannot get hold of an electronic file in my work. DTP is almost universal in my business.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 04:11:35 PM EST
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GOCR for example (none / 1)

GOCR

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by Sven Triloqvist on Sun Feb 10th, 2008 at 04:13:54 PM EST
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