“PDF2Text Test Macro With Word "Confined"” Macro

[ccstone]

As Chris noted, while the -enc[ode] options handles the ligatures, it doesn’t provide a comparable and usable text output as the -raw option.

Hey Anthony,

I don’t believe that’s quite what I said. 

As far as I can see there’s no reason you can’t combine the options:

pdftotext -raw -enc ASCII7 "<#path#>" -

This is a BBEdit placeholder. When such tokens are in a document you can tab to select the next one and so on.

<#path#>

It’s very convenient when you need to input a code snippet with optional parameters.

-Chris

[KM_Panther]

Chris,

Apologies! I was only referring to the -enc option output as compared solely to the -raw option output and didn’t even realize that the options could be combined.

[prashant]

Thank You again for this post. This was very very very helpful and easy for me to follow through. I really appreciate this gem.