Comments on: Data Parsing and Conversion http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/02/28/data-parsing-and-conversion/ Utterly random, incoherent and disjointed rants and ramblings... Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:18:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 by: Luke http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/02/28/data-parsing-and-conversion/#comment-3127 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 21:13:23 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/02/28/data-parsing-and-conversion/#comment-3127 Miloš - yeah, it's awesome for him. Sucked for me though. :| Mirko - yeah, I tried that. You can get decent results out of very nice files, but more often than not, you get a jumbled mess unfortunately. As you can see in the pictures these files usually include loads of meta-data that does not need to be in excel and in fact gets in the way. Ps2Ascii grabs all of that. Monarch and similar tools give you much more control of what ends up in your output file, and what gets dropped. Miloš - yeah, it’s awesome for him. Sucked for me though. |

Mirko - yeah, I tried that. You can get decent results out of very nice files, but more often than not, you get a jumbled mess unfortunately. As you can see in the pictures these files usually include loads of meta-data that does not need to be in excel and in fact gets in the way. Ps2Ascii grabs all of that. Monarch and similar tools give you much more control of what ends up in your output file, and what gets dropped.

]]> by: Mirko http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/02/28/data-parsing-and-conversion/#comment-3126 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:25:18 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/02/28/data-parsing-and-conversion/#comment-3126 just curious - have you tried ps2ascii or pstotext? found info here http://www.postscript.org/FAQs/language/node36.html#SECTION000311000000000000000 acroread -toPostScript file.pdf && ps2ascii file.ps > file.txt just curious - have you tried ps2ascii or pstotext? found info here

http://www.postscript.org/FAQs/language/node36.html#SECTION00031100000 0000000000

acroread -toPostScript file.pdf && ps2ascii file.ps > file.txt

]]> by: Miloš http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/02/28/data-parsing-and-conversion/#comment-3125 Wed, 28 Feb 2007 20:19:26 +0000 http://www.terminally-incoherent.com/blog/2007/02/28/data-parsing-and-conversion/#comment-3125 Didn't get to read the entire entry yet (will do so later today), but too bad that Koeller left the MSU. Great for him though. Didn’t get to read the entire entry yet (will do so later today), but too bad that Koeller left the MSU. Great for him though.

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