Open a file in Adobe Reader - select all text - copy in clipboard - paste in Notepad

[thpanos]

Dear sirs,

I am a very novice to autoit3 (downloaded 24 hours).

I would appreciate for any help, I would like to do the following:

1. I have opened "Adobe Reader" and "Notepad" on my desktop (before autoit macro)

2. Set focus to "Adobe Reader" window - I think _WinWaitActivate("Adobe Reader","")

3. Open "document.pdf" on "Adobe Reader" - I do not know how

4. Press "Ctrl+A" to select all text of "document.pdf" - I think Send("{CTRLDOWN}a{CTRLUP}")

5. Press "Ctrl+C" to copy all text to clipboard - I think Send("{CTRLDOWN}c{CTRLUP}")

6. Close "document.pdf" from "Adobe Reader" - I think press "Alt+f+c" Send("{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}c")

7. Set focus to "Notepad" window - I think _WinWaitActivate("Untitled - Notepad","")

8. Press "Ctrl+v" to paste all text from clipboard - I think Send("{CTRLDOWN}v{CTRLUP}")

9. Save text to "document.txt" - I do not know how

The final (incomplete) script follows:

_WinWaitActivate("Adobe Reader","")

....

Send("{CTRLDOWN}a{CTRLUP}")

Send("{CTRLDOWN}c{CTRLUP}")

Send("{ALTDOWN}f{ALTUP}c")

_WinWaitActivate("Untitled - Notepad","")

Send("{CTRLDOWN}v{CTRLUP}")

....

Please, help me to finalize the script!

Thank you in advance for your time reading my message.

Best Regards,

Theodore

[BrewManNH]

You're over complicating this process I think. First, you can open a PDF with ShellExecute, if Adobe Reader is the program that will normally open a PDF if you double click on it, then ShellExecute will run Reader for you. Second, every version of Adobe Reader for the past several years allows you to save a PDF as a text document, look in the File menu. It will default to a text file with the same name as the PDF file just a different extension.

[thpanos]

You're over complicating this process I think. First, you can open a PDF with ShellExecute, if Adobe Reader is the program that will normally open a PDF if you double click on it, then ShellExecute will run Reader for you. Second, every version of Adobe Reader for the past several years allows you to save a PDF as a text document, look in the File menu. It will default to a text file with the same name as the PDF file just a different extension.

Due to problems with "save as text" in reader (saving greek utf-8 text) I am trying to simulate what I am actually doing every day.

Select all text in a (greek) pdf document - copy it to the clipboard - and finally activate Notepad, pasting it there and saving it (in Notepad) as a txt (ANSI) file.

Regards,

Theodore

[somdcomputerguy]

There is no _WinWaitActivate command, I'm pretty sure. There is however a WinWaitActive command, but I think this is the command you're thinking of here, WinActivate. The caret '^' will replace {CTRLDOWN}{CTRLUP}, and the exclamation mark '!' will replace {ALTDOWN}{ALTUP}. ClipPut and ClipGet are the equivalent of the clipboard copy and paste commands.

Welcome to the Forum. Good luck!