PDF Converter Help Please
PDF Converter Help Please
I have Compare It installed and am trying to use the PDF converter. This is how I have the option set up under Options>Options>Converters:
Name: Pdf2Text
Mask: *.pdf
Command: C:\Program Files\Compare It!\pdftotext.dll
Arguments: {$Source_File} {$Converted_File}
When I try to compare two PDF files created with Adobe PDF creator, it still returns unreadable. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
Name: Pdf2Text
Mask: *.pdf
Command: C:\Program Files\Compare It!\pdftotext.dll
Arguments: {$Source_File} {$Converted_File}
When I try to compare two PDF files created with Adobe PDF creator, it still returns unreadable. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
I upgraded to version 3.86. I do see the various converters in the options and they are all checked. However, when I created new PDF's and tried to compare they still don't compare correctly. Should CompareIt automatically create the text file and compare the text files? Is there something else I need to do in order for the conversion to take place?
thanks!
thanks!
Re: PDF Converter Help Please
I have a similar issue in that the app only displays the first few pages of the document then has (?) at the end of both documents I am comparing. Is there a funny setting somewhere I missed?KPollard wrote:I have Compare It installed and am trying to use the PDF converter. This is how I have the option set up under Options>Options>Converters:
Name: Pdf2Text
Mask: *.pdf
Command: C:\Program Files\Compare It!\pdftotext.dll
Arguments: {$Source_File} {$Converted_File}
When I try to compare two PDF files created with Adobe PDF creator, it still returns unreadable. Can you tell me what I am doing wrong?
Thanks!
I have just upgraded to the latest tool (Beta, V4), I have downloaded and copied the dll into the directory where the app is run from and I have enabled the converter.
Hi,
It seems that your pdf file is corrupt. I think you can try a utility called Advanced PDF Repair to repair your PDF file. It works rather well for my corrupt PDF files. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/
Hope this helps.
Alan
It seems that your pdf file is corrupt. I think you can try a utility called Advanced PDF Repair to repair your PDF file. It works rather well for my corrupt PDF files. Its web address is http://www.datanumen.com/apdfr/
Hope this helps.
Alan
PDF Repair tool
Hi there
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually think the bit that can't be converted is actually text that was copied into the doc as an image before creating the pdf, hence any OCR converter won't pick it up as it's not recognised as text but as an image (and images can't possibly be converted, like putting a picture in a thousand words :p)
Thanks for the suggestion. I actually think the bit that can't be converted is actually text that was copied into the doc as an image before creating the pdf, hence any OCR converter won't pick it up as it's not recognised as text but as an image (and images can't possibly be converted, like putting a picture in a thousand words :p)