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Gillian Searl United Kingdom Local time: 20:44 German to English
Mar 14, 2003
Hi all!
I\'ve got a 78 page document that was orginally in pdf format. I extracted it using Gemini and now have a word doc. The original pdf was in two columns and the word doc has maintained the text in the correct columns but the text is in numerous text boxes. You can remove the box by highlighting it, right clicking and choosing frame, delete frame - This then produces text that goes across the page, i.e. not in 2 columns. How can I remove all the text boxes in one go? If I then ch... See more
Hi all!
I\'ve got a 78 page document that was orginally in pdf format. I extracted it using Gemini and now have a word doc. The original pdf was in two columns and the word doc has maintained the text in the correct columns but the text is in numerous text boxes. You can remove the box by highlighting it, right clicking and choosing frame, delete frame - This then produces text that goes across the page, i.e. not in 2 columns. How can I remove all the text boxes in one go? If I then choose 2 columns will it mess up the whole thing which is my fear? What would you do? Simply translate in the text boxes? They won\'t provide the doc in another format - I already asked. Thanks for any advice you may have. ▲ Collapse
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Gerard de Noord France Local time: 21:44 Member (2003) English to Dutch + ...
Try a macro?
Mar 14, 2003
Try this macro on a copy of the file or use (a test version of) Wordfast to extract the PDF text to a DOC without text boxes.
Regards,
Gerard
Sub ExtractFromTextBoxes()
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Dim i As Integer, Boite As Shape, ThisDoc As Document
Before extracting text from your PDF, you can deselect Gemini\'s \"Retain Layout\" option to avoid creation of text frames in your resulting RTF file. That should do the trick!
HTH
Angélica
[ This Message was edited by:agportaleson2003-03-15 20:51]
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Ramón Esquivel Peru Local time: 15:44 Member (2002) English to Spanish
Try this
Mar 15, 2003
Hi Gillian,
Open your document in Wordpad and save it as RTF.
Open it again in Word, and you won\'t see text boxes anymore.
Regards,
Ramon
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