Re: [NTLK] extracting text

From: Woody Smith (woodysmith_at_comcast.net)
Date: Fri Feb 25 2005 - 14:28:59 PST

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If you have MS Word, try opening the package with the option 'extract
text from any document'.
I think this will work, you will still have some garbage to clean up
IIRC.

Woody

On Feb 25, 2005, at 2:24 PM, Owen Collins wrote:

> Is there a way that you can extract the text from a paperback book? I
> have a book I lost the source file for. It seems I can select the text
> on one page and copy it then paste it into a note. But repaeting it a
> hundred something times is going to get old.
>
> Thanks all,

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