[Elecraft] Excel Test

[rich hurd WC3T]

In my day job, I do Electronic Data Interchange (EDI) work.  Most of it
involves PDFs of the standards that the trading partner uses,  and more
often than I would like, I see the PDFs containing sample data (which in an
ideal world are actual text data, because we have to send them through a
process called "translation" that takes ASCII and little else as input.)

Adobe Reader - at least the version I have - has a menu option under File
which is "Save as Other..."  and the only option is Text.   And it does!
It saves the PDF as a text document.   What a Godsend.   I do not know when
this started, but there's a special place in heaven for the person who came
up with this function to Adobe Reader.


On Wed, Feb 26, 2020 at 11:04 AM Walter Underwood <wunder at wunderwood.org>
wrote:

> I got it from somebody else. Before I heard this, I said that PDF is where
> text goes to die.
>
> wunder
> K6WRU
> Walter Underwood
> CM87wj
> http://observer.wunderwood.org/ (my blog)
>
> > On Feb 26, 2020, at 6:46 AM, Chris R. NW6V <chrisrut7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Walter,
> >
> > Bravo!. :-) I'm going to steal this line...  :-)
> >
> > 73 Chris NW6V
> >
> > On Tue, 25 Feb 2020 08:09:02 -0800  AM <wunder at wunderwood.org> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> "Turning a PDF back into structured text is like turning hamburger back
> >> into a cow."
> >>
> >>
> >>
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