Wow, totally excellent! Thanks for the link. posted by jasper411 at 7:55 PM on August 17, 2011
These free online productivity tools will ensure that I never get anything done again. PERFECT. posted by louche mustachio at 8:31 PM on August 17, 2011 [2 favorites]
How have I missed this? Bookmarked! posted by drhydro at 8:34 PM on August 17, 2011
That's amazingly excellent! posted by wlai at 8:46 PM on August 17, 2011
Previously (though I hadn't noticed they did anything beyond the LaTeX Editor til this post). posted by BungaDunga at 9:40 PM on August 17, 2011
This is amazing. Thank you, thank you, thank you! posted by tickingclock at 10:44 PM on August 17, 2011
Thanks, I'd never heard of this either but it looks very useful. posted by joannemullen at 12:23 AM on August 18, 2011
The PDF2X tool mentions converting to something called "Burst Pages"; I have the vague impression this has something to do with concatenating text, but I've never heard of Burst Pages before. Anybody have a clue for me?
I'd love to find a utility to convert multiple scanned pages (images) in a PDF to a continuous stream of text; a multi-page OCR. As far as I can tell, Acrobat's OCR functionality only converts one page/image at a time... posted by amtho at 2:00 AM on August 18, 2011
amtho: I don't think that does what you're seeking.
"Burst" just decomposes a multi-page pdf file into individual pdf files (one per page). posted by pjm at 2:35 AM on August 18, 2011
Brilliant. Thanks, Trurl. Bookmarked indeed. posted by Splunge at 4:06 AM on August 18, 2011
Oh, I was hoping that Burst would take a pdf of a photocopy of a book, 2-pages-to-a-page, and cut each page in half, so that each page of the pdf represents a page of the book. They still haven't figured that one out? Sigh. posted by Casuistry at 4:49 AM on August 18, 2011
For bursting functions, I've had good experience using a unix tool called pdftk to do this. I use it now with a web script to break apart pdf documents into individual pages keyed to a unique id. It may be worth looking into that tool if you need to perform some of these operations local to your network. posted by dgran at 7:12 AM on August 18, 2011
"online productivity tools"
Isn't that an oxymoron? posted by Twang at 9:11 AM on August 18, 2011
Casuistry: "Oh, I was hoping that Burst would take a pdf of a photocopy of a book, 2-pages-to-a-page, and cut each page in half, so that each page of the pdf represents a page of the book. They still haven't figured that one out? Sigh"
posted by odinsdream at 7:43 PM on August 17, 2011