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ChGrunwald

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Hello,

 

I would like to add some materials to Accordance as user tools. I have plenty of .pdf files, which i would like to arrange and manage within Accordance. Is that possible?

Up to now, I exported the contents of the pdfs from Acrobat as plain textfiles and copied the text into a new user tool. That's very exhausting

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The best way to import to a user tool is from an HTML file. However, I do not know if there is software out there that can export PDF to HTML.

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Another option would be to create a User Tool which acts as a kind of index to those PDFs, then include hypertextable links to the PDF files on your hard drive. For example, you could have a kind of Topic index:

 

Marriage and Divorce

For a good discussion of divorce in ancient Israel, see file://...

 

Joe Weaks has a little applet called GetURLpath which copies the file path of any file you you drag onto it. Then just paste the link into the User Tool and format it as a link.

 

You'll then be able to click those links to launch the PDFs in Preview, the Docs in Word or TextEdit, etc.

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That is a very cool idea. Had no idea that could be done.

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Thank You for your attendance!!

I tried the idea with the links to files on the harddisk several days bevore. It's a thrilling ability, and i assume, that i have to strengthen the use of links in my workflow. But it would be really nice, if accordance is one day able to handle other files the same way as modules! (I know – this is mourning on a high level ... Accordance is fantastic!)

 

Thank you very much.

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So I wonder if there's a way to convert .pdfs to a user tool directly

 

Absolutely! The full version of Acrobat converts PDF to HTML.

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There are other tools as well for converting PDF to html, but none of them are free, as far as I can tell.

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Absolutely! The full version of Acrobat converts PDF to HTML.

 

Do you mean Acrobat professional? Can you explain to me how this is done? I've looked in the menu items but can't find anything that would indicate conversion to html. Thanks!

 

Laurel.

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Do you mean Acrobat professional? Can you explain to me how this is done? I've looked in the menu items but can't find anything that would indicate conversion to html. Thanks!

 

Laurel.

 

You will have to use OCR Text Recognition under the Document menu first if the file is not already text, otherwise it will see it all as graphics.

 

The conversion takes place using Export under the File menu, select HTML. If you OCR'd the text in Acrobat, you will most likely be looking at a good deal of editing once you've got your html file and accompanying folder with any graphics. The graphics cannot be placed directly in a user tool, but you can make a external link to them.

 

Pastor Ed Cross

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Do you mean Acrobat professional? Can you explain to me how this is done? I've looked in the menu items but can't find anything that would indicate conversion to html. Thanks!

 

Laurel.

 

I have Adobe Acrobat 8 Professional. With a PDF file loaded, there is an "Export" button at the top in the menu bar. Clicking on it, HTML is one of many choices.

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  • 4 months later...

Hi once again,

 

Just one question concerning the discussed topic: I have a pdf with pictures in it (a few small diagramms). I converted it via Acrobat professional to html. The conversion works well

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You will have to use OCR Text Recognition under the Document menu first if the file is not already text, otherwise it will see it all as graphics.

 

The conversion takes place using Export under the File menu, select HTML. If you OCR'd the text in Acrobat, you will most likely be looking at a good deal of editing once you've got your html file and accompanying folder with any graphics. The graphics cannot be placed directly in a user tool, but you can make a external link to them.

 

Pastor Ed Cross

 

 

It's a very powerfull tool, thank you very much!!

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