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by gpulawski
Sat Oct 13, 2007 2:38 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Nice, free pdf tool.
Replies: 0
Views: 3973

Nice, free pdf tool.

More and more, I have to mess with bunches of pdf documents. One way is to automate Adobe Acrobat which comes in multiple versions. This usually means writing Adobescript javascript routines for the version of acrobat being used and then calling them from the outside ie. Macro Scheduler, using a met...
by gpulawski
Tue Oct 09, 2007 2:04 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Freebie OCR for screenshots and TIFF/BMP Files
Replies: 8
Views: 26777

Yup, I can think of a lot of possibilities. It doesn't compare in accuracy to Omnipage or ABBYY but it's good enough for a lot of interesting Automation/MacroScheduler ideas. (And just about everybody has it installed already.)

GJP
by gpulawski
Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:31 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Freebie OCR for screenshots and TIFF/BMP Files
Replies: 8
Views: 26777

Freebie OCR for screenshots and TIFF/BMP Files

I looked into using a couple of the commercial SDK's for some limited OCR of screenshot bitmaps for instance to verify information in a window and to check some image files for certain text content. These were quite expensive and required royalty fees. Then, I recalled that Microsoft Office has buil...
by gpulawski
Sun Sep 23, 2007 6:28 pm
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Acrobat External Control Example
Replies: 1
Views: 7231

Acrobat External Control Example

I thought this might be useful to someone. Using Adobe Acrobat it is possible to run an internal Acrobat Javascript from the outside using Macro Scheduler's VB Script. An Example: Create a Javascript File containing the following (using notepad or something): //javascript file, at the folder level (...
by gpulawski
Mon Sep 10, 2007 7:35 pm
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Newbie Trouble with MoveFile
Replies: 3
Views: 5413

Thank you, thank you. NOW I see it.

Wonderful bit of work this Macro Scheduler. Just purchased it last week and it has saved lots and lots of time.
by gpulawski
Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:23 am
Forum: Beginners
Topic: Newbie Trouble with MoveFile
Replies: 3
Views: 5413

Newbie Trouble with MoveFile

I'm having trouble with getting the MoveFile to work as I think it is described. I'm trying to copy a pdf file from one folder to another while renaming it. Syntax presumed to be: MoveFile>fromvariable containing full path name, tovariable full path. Any help would be appreciated. VBStart dim thePat...
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