making PDFs workable

[JD Austin]

If the adobe reader doesn't do it use calibre to convert it to html (I
usually do htmlz and then extract the archive to a folder).
http://calibre-ebook.com/download

On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:17 PM, Mark Jarvis <m.jarvis at cox.net> wrote:

>
> The Foxitpro PDF reader allows text to be marked and copied.
> Unfortunately, it's only available for Windows. I don't know if there's a
> Linux PDF reader that has that capability.
>
> -mj-
>
>
> Michael Havens wrote:
>
> HOw can I make it so I can copy-n-paste the text from a pdf into a oo
> document?
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 7:32 AM, Sam Kreimeyer <skreimey at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Here's a pdf of a quick guide to regular expressions
>> http://www.addedbytes.com/download/regular-expressions-cheat-sheet-v1/pdf/
>>
>> Basically, it's a format for defining search patterns that supports
>> special meanings for certain characters. For instance:
>>
>> a - finds any string like "a"
>> a. - finds any string like "a" plus any other character except a new line
>> (matches "aa", "ab", "ac", etc)
>> a.* - finds any string like "a" plus zero or more characters except a new
>> line (matches "aa", "abcdefghijk")
>> Other special characters can further modify this behavior.
>>
>> So here's an explanation of the earlier command.
>>
>> 's/\.JPG$/.jpg/' *.JPG
>>
>> Basic search and replace format s/[string we search for]/[string to
>> replace matches with]/
>>
>> "\.JPG$" - Because "." is special, we escape it with "\" to keep the
>> regex from interpreting it, so the "." will be treated literally. "JPG" is
>> what we're looking for. Placing a "$" at the end of the string tells the
>> regex to match the string only at the end of the strings you're searching.
>> This means that you will match "example.JPG" but not "JPG.example".
>>
>> ".jpg" - This is our replacement string. This is what goes in the place
>> of every match we find.
>>
>> "*.JPG" - while this isn't part of the regex, "*" is a wildcard (can be
>> substituted for any number of characters).
>>
>> Hope that helps!
>>
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