[TxMt] Re: Open PDF as .txt file

[Walter Lee Davis]

There's an ancient command-line tool called pdftotext that you might try here. I used it to index the text content of PDFs for a search engine. It doesn't always get all the words in the right order, but it does usually get all of the words.

Walter

On Dec 19, 2013, at 6:56 PM, Allan Odgaard wrote:

> On 19 Dec 2013, at 13:55, Ross Ahmed wrote:
> 
>> Is it at all possible to open a PDF as a .txt file within TextMate?
> 
> Not sure what you want here. A PDF is a binary file and it doesn’t embed its textual content as ASCII / unicode.
> 
> If however you have something that can convert a PDF to some sort of textual representation, then you can setup that to run as an import hook, when TextMate opens a PDF file. We have done this for compiled AppleScript, binary property lists, and possibly a few other binary formats that can easily be converted to text.
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