Author: Lou Adler

Convert PDF to Text

Answer:

If Reader is installed this code will do it for you: 

1   {
2   courtesy DLoke on the Delphi-Talk mailing list
3   http://www.elists.org
4   }
5   
6   procedure Tform1.PDF2Text(APDFFileName, ATextFileName: TFileName);
7   var
8     App, AVDoc: Variant;
9   begin
10    //create an instance. if no running instance is found a new one is started
11    App := CreateOleObject('AcroExch.App');
12    // App.Show;   //only if you want to..
13    AVDoc := App.GetActiveDoc; //doc handle
14    AVDoc.Open(APDFFileName, ''); //see note below
15    //select all and copy to clipboard
16    App.MenuItemExecute('Edit');
17    App.MenuItemExecute('SelectAll');
18    App.MenuItemExecute('Edit');
19    App.MenuItemExecute('Copy');
20    // Memo1 CAN be set to invisible
21    // You need this in order to get it from
22    // the clipboard into a text file
23    Memo1.PasteFromClipboard;
24    // Save the text to a file
25    Memo1.Lines.SaveToFile(ATextFileName);
26    App.Exit; //unless you want to leave it running.
27  end;