I've some CDroms with semiconductor datasheets on them but all as pdf with
file names not relating to the items. There is no overall listing of whats
on these disks and can only find out by suck it and see on the front-page
built-in search facility 1 by 1 or read each pdf file 1 by 1.
Curiously windows explorer search for text can see text on these pdf files
including the item numbers but viewing the pdf file on a Hex reader this
text is not viewable. Anyone know a way round this as I may as well chuck
them otherwise.
I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first page/ line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s

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Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first page/ line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s

In article ,
n cook wrote:
I've some CDroms with semiconductor datasheets on them but all as pdf
with file names not relating to the items. There is no overall listing
of whats on these disks and can only find out by suck it and see on the
front-page built-in search facility 1 by 1 or read each pdf file 1 by 1.

I don't understand PCs, but can't you just copy them across to another CD
and change each filename to something meaningful - like LM338/PDF, etc, if
you don't want to store them on your HD?

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Philson wrote in message
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You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first page/
line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s


I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at the end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text files as you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to nothing
as useless before externally indexing

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

"n cook" wrote in message
...
Philson wrote in message
...
You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first page/
line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s


I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at the end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text files as
you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to
nothing
as useless before externally indexing

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




It would be really great if you could upload these CDs to a server somewhere
and post the URL here so we can all have a look.

ian field wrote in message
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"n cook" wrote in message
...
Philson wrote in message
...
You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access
this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first page/
line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s


I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross
reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at the
end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text files as
you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file
names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to
nothing
as useless before externally indexing

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




It would be really great if you could upload these CDs to a server
somewhere
and post the URL here so we can all have a look.



If I could afford that sort of behaviour I would not be using a pc cobbled
together from skip-trash etc and using win98


--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

"n cook" wrote in message
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ian field wrote in message
...

"n cook" wrote in message
...
Philson wrote in message
...
You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access
this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first page/
line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s


I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross
reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at the
end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text files
as
you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file
names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to
nothing
as useless before externally indexing

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




It would be really great if you could upload these CDs to a server
somewhere
and post the URL here so we can all have a look.



If I could afford that sort of behaviour I would not be using a pc cobbled
together from skip-trash etc and using win98


--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




There is a free file hosting service at: http://www.filespoint.com/ but I'm
not sure if there is any way to upload a whole CD - the limit on filesize is
500Mb so it might be possible to change the attributes of a folder saved on
a HD to fool the OS into thinking its a file (and give it an extension so it
looks like a file) someone who knows more than me might be able to clarify
if this is possible, and if so how?

ian field wrote in message
...

"n cook" wrote in message
...
ian field wrote in message
...

"n cook" wrote in message
...
Philson wrote in message
...
You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print 1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder
as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a
jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access
this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first
page/
line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s


I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross
reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at
the
end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text files
as
you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file
names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to
nothing
as useless before externally indexing

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




It would be really great if you could upload these CDs to a server
somewhere
and post the URL here so we can all have a look.



If I could afford that sort of behaviour I would not be using a pc
cobbled
together from skip-trash etc and using win98


--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




There is a free file hosting service at: http://www.filespoint.com/ but
I'm
not sure if there is any way to upload a whole CD - the limit on filesize
is
500Mb so it might be possible to change the attributes of a folder saved
on
a HD to fool the OS into thinking its a file (and give it an extension so
it
looks like a file) someone who knows more than me might be able to clarify
if this is possible, and if so how?



Have you any idea how long it would take to upload 500Mbyte on a 28K modem ?

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/

"n cook" wrote in message
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ian field wrote in message
...

"n cook" wrote in message
...
ian field wrote in message
...

"n cook" wrote in message
...
Philson wrote in message
...
You should be able to do this directly with Acrobat. I don't know
about earlier versions but Acrobat v7 (full utilty not just the
reader), has batch facilities that will achieve your objective.
Drop down the Advanced menu, select Batch Processing then 'Print
1st
page of all'. You can then select the input folder, another folder
as
the output and whether you want it printed in RTF, text or as a
jpeg.



I've pdf2text reader , would it be possible to sequentially access
this
reader within a Visual Basic or Word macro to convert the first
page/
line/s
of each pdf and save to file/s


I tried acrobat7 but it won't work on win98.
I've got round it via this route
FoxitReader pdf reader to see whats there, where the index/cross
reference
were.
pdf2text to convert the first 15 , 50 or whatever pages to text.
Unfortunately 2 pdf files were 1,500 pages long with the index at
the
end
so had to go away for 1/4 hour and then delete 1,470 small text
files
as
you
cannot preset pages on the free pdf2text version
Then used AF5 file batch renamer to put some structure to the file
names.
First CD done the other 8 don't have so many datasheets so should be
aeasier.
So I won't be throwing them out now they are usable.
No wonder someone was disposing of them at a radio rally for next to
nothing
as useless before externally indexing

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




It would be really great if you could upload these CDs to a server
somewhere
and post the URL here so we can all have a look.



If I could afford that sort of behaviour I would not be using a pc
cobbled
together from skip-trash etc and using win98


--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




There is a free file hosting service at: http://www.filespoint.com/ but
I'm
not sure if there is any way to upload a whole CD - the limit on filesize
is
500Mb so it might be possible to change the attributes of a folder saved
on
a HD to fool the OS into thinking its a file (and give it an extension so
it
looks like a file) someone who knows more than me might be able to
clarify
if this is possible, and if so how?



Have you any idea how long it would take to upload 500Mbyte on a 28K modem
?

--
Diverse Devices, Southampton, England
electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on
http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/




A dilemma to be sure, it took me years to get around to upgrading to
broadband because I thought I couldn't afford the £20/month charge, but when
I looked at my phone bill for my very limited use of dialup I realised that
I was already paying more than that anyway!