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Extracting entire document text and putting it in a database

PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2023 7:27 am
by Trickyt57
I was wondering if there is any way that Hazel could extract the entire raw unformatted text of a document, from start to finish, and then write that text to another file or to a database or to another document, such as word, excel etc.

The reason for doing this is to try and find a way to digitise some old documents, so that I don't have to store the pdf copy, and so that I can manipulate the resulting data.

Re: Extracting entire document text and putting it in a data

PostPosted: Thu Mar 16, 2023 9:23 am
by Mr_Noodle
You'll need to use a script for that. There might be some commandline programs that you'll need to grab the text from the PDF.