OT: Cannot extract text from PDF

[Peter Gold]

Have you tried:

* Copy/Paste
* Printing to PDF from Acrobat Pro, then trying to extract text by Save As?

HTH

Regards,

Peter Gold
KnowHow ProServices

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Shuttleworth, Roger
<Roger_Shuttleworth at tvworks.com> wrote:
> Thanks for your help.
>
> I can save other PDFs without a problem.
> My Acrobat version is Acrobat Pro 7.1.0.
> The Application was AppleWorks. The PDF Producer is Mac OSX 10.3.9 Quartz PdfContext according to the Document Properties window. There seems to be
> nothing else interesting in the metadata, and no security applied.
>
> Roger
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: knowhowpro at gmail.com [mailto:knowhowpro at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Gold
> Sent: March 10, 2009 12:47 PM
> To: Art Campbell
> Cc: Shuttleworth, Roger; framers at lists.frameusers.com
> Subject: Re: OT: Cannot extract text from PDF
>
>>> I have  a PDF that was created using Mac OSX 10.3.9. It displays fine on my Windows XP SP3 machine, but I cannot extract the text and create a Word
>>> doc. When I try Save As, I get nothing produced except an error:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bad PDF; could not read page structure. <Bad PDF; error in processing fonts: cannot find CMAP resource file> [33]
>
> If the PDF was made using Mac's Preview application, this could be the problem;
> check document info for Creator.
>
> If you get the same error when trying to Save As with all documents,
> the Acrobat installation may be corrupted.
>