Clever though Foxit is, I do not think it is reading meta data from the
file. With tests on PDF documents created from my own PC, the fonts reported
are not necessarily the fonts used. You would need to ask Foxit (or better
still Adobe who own the format) what is possible. Until I receive convincing
evidence to the contrary I will stick with my original response.
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John Dalberg wrote:
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
We are still going round in circles with this, but you are missing
the essential point that PDF is a *graphics* format and if the
original document is not available for reference you are using what
is essentially OCR to recreate a document from the PDF- just as you
might with a JPG or TIFF file. OCR software, even at its best, is
not capable of recreating the document (any document) with 100%
accuracy. In my opinion Finereader is the best choice, but even that
will not create the style structure of the original document and you
will have a lot of work on your hands to create an editable document.
It might be in a graphics format but a pdf file should contain enough
meta data to export the file with more intelligent styles. Explain to
me how an editor like Foxit Editor is able to open a pdf file, let's
you select a text, tells you what font was used plus other attributes
and let's you edit the text. If an editor is able to do this why
can't a converter dump these attributes and create Word styles out of
them? When I say a Word style, all I want the style to include is
font and size so that I can select all instances of text that's using
the same fonts and size. Surely the converter should be able to have
all similar text be lumped into a single style.
I don't believe an OCR program will produce a better Word document
than a pdf converter.
I am not looking for extracting the same original structure. All I am
looking for is being able to choose all instances of a certain style.
I don't care if the style is a dummy style, which wasn't in the
original document, created by the converter as long as it defines
something like a font style and size and all text having the same
font and size point to that style.
I am not sure if you understand what my goal is. I don't care if the
styles produced by the converter do not resemble the styles of the
original document. If the orignial used Arial size 10 and the
converter produces font Zulu size 11, it's ok as long I can choose
all text of that style. It will take me a few seconds to choose all
these text and modify them back to use Arial size 10. *BUT* the
problem is the converters *do not produce different styles*. Accurate
styles from the original (name..etc) doesn't matter.
As you apparently didn't create the PDF in the first place, can you
obtain the original document from whoever did - presumably not?
No.
As for Acrobat's own abilities to recreate a PDF, you'll have to take
that up with Adobe. Word is not the issue here.
Had the PDF ben created from a graphical representation of the
document (as some are to make them more difficult to recreate)
Acrobat would not be able to save the PDF as an editable document.
It wasn't created from a graphical representation. It's an eBook and
the author must have been using a word processor.
John Dalberg