Can Stata Convert a PDF file into a text file?

[Tony Li]

Dear Users,

Do you know if there is a command in Stata which can help to convert PDF files into text?

I have several thousand PDF files which needs to be transfered into text for further analyse, but manually do it one by one is too tedious and no guarantee of safty, so if you happen to know a command like this or other third party software, please let me know.

My email address is [email protected]


thanks

Tony

[Mike Lacy]

I just used Google on: /batch convert pdf text/

The first hit was: http://www.kenbenoit.net/how-to-batc...files-to-text/

This appears relevant to your problem.

Regards, Mike

[Sean Higgins]

There are a number of Python packages for this: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2...ng-pdf-to-text

[Tony Li]

Many thanks to Mick Lacy and Sean HIggins