Saving txt file from PDF

[Former Community Member]

Hello!

Is it possible to save a TXT file directly from a PDF?

Or the only way to save anything from a PDF is using a webservice?

Thank you for any ideas!

Marcos

[radzmar]

With Acrobat you can save the written content of any PDF file as a txt file, excepting XFA forms.

For those files the saved txt file will be blank.

[Former Community Member]

Hi Radzmar,

How do I save it? I'd like to save this when the user presses a button.

Thank you!

Marcos

[radzmar]

Hmm,

the problem is, you generally can't do this with a buttons script.

It's because the menu item used for this method is not listed in whitelist of those menu items allowed to be executed via scriptings.

You can add this menu item to the whitelist, but it's has to be done in the registry on every computer using this form (risky and difficult to realize).

Also, if the menu Item has not be execute once before manually by the user, the script also fails.

I have no idea what causes this behavior in Acrobat, very strange.

Whatever. Here is the script I used to save a PDF as txt (I only tested it in Acrobat X via console):

app.execMenuItem("SaveAsSubmenu.avSaveAsMoreSaveOptionsSubmenu.com.adobe.acrobat.plain-text");