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[Arnaud Schmittbuhl <question241734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Question #241734 on qpdfview changed:
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Arnaud Schmittbuhl is still having a problem:
Le Mon, 06 Jan 2014 10:11:40 -0000,
Adam Reichold <question241734@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :


Hello,

> thank you for your suggestion, but I am not sure what you mean
> exactly:
> 
> A function to copy all the text of a single page? The result could
> already be achieved by zooming out and just selecting all text on the
> page, so I don't think this merits a special function. (Also, as a
> plain keyboard shortcut, I would always have to apply to the current
> page which seems rather limiting in multiple-page layouts.)
> 
> If you rather mean an option to copy the complete text of the whole
> document, then I think this is slightly out of scope for a viewer and
> you should rather use a format conversion tool like "pdftotext" or
> "pdftohtml".

I meant the whole text but you're right, pdftotext do the job.

> So I am currently not really convinced of the necessity of such a
> function.

OK.
Bye,

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Arnaud Schmittbuhl

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