On 4/15/25 10:31 AM, Nicolas George wrote:
Richard Owlett (HE12025-04-15):
I don't know how to approach the problem.
What I would like to end up with is a CSV formatted file containing the two
left columns of Table A4.14 (pages 106&107) of
[
https://fns-prod.azureedge.us/sites/default/files/resource-files/TFP2021.pdf
].
Suggestions?
Have you tried starting with pdftotext -layout and then adding the CSV
delimiters using a powerful editor.
Had followed similar logical path.
*BUT* I had run pdf2txt which *does not* have a "-layout" option.
The result was defectively garbage for my purposes.
I just looked at the man-page for pdftotext. I like!
I run a reasonable default install of Debian 12.8 with MATE 1.26.0 .
A test run of "pdftotext -help" was successful.
I will now do a test run using Kent's suggestion of
$ pdftotext -f 106 -l 107 TFP2021.pdf TFP2021.txt
to have a common point of reference.
I'll also do a trial run with the "-layout" option.
Is there a good tutorial I should be reading?
The rectangle selection of Vim might be useful.
Synaptic reports that vim-tiny is installed.
It indicates that vim, neovim, and neovim-qt are available.
What should I install?
Although as an E.E. undergrad in the 60's I was introduced to computers,
I strongly prefer GUI tools over command line. [Some co-workers in the
70's were TECO fanatics, so I've seen the power of the command line.]
Thanks
