dinesh_devaraj Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Hi All, I developed a AutoIt script which does the following 1. Open Adobe PDF Reader 2. Open a PDF file 3. Copy the contents to clipboard 4. Write the clipboard contents to text file The script does this in a loop for mulitiple files. For testing I have three PDF files. The problem is the PDF files are large hence the copy command Send("^c") takes some time (few secs). Hence when I run the script the content of the PDF file are written to different text file. Say for example the content of 1st PDF file is written in 2nd text file, content of the 2nd PDF file is written in 3rd text file and content of the 1st PDF file is written in the 3rd text file. If I include a sleep command to pause the operation for few seconds the contents are written in the correct output file. Why is it not working without sleep, what am I doing wrong? expandcollapse popup#include <Array.au3> #include <FileConstants.au3> Local $prPdfReader = Run("D:/Softwares/Adobe/Reader/Reader/AcroRd32.exe") Local $hnPrw = WinWaitActive("Adobe Reader") MainExec() ProcessClose($prPdfReader) Func MainExec() If 0 == $CmdLine[0] Then ConsoleWrite("usage> autoit " & @ScriptName & " <folder1> [ <folder2>... <folder62>]" & @LF) EndIf For $I=1 To $CmdLine[0] EachFile($CmdLine[$I]) Next EndFunc Func EachFile($folder) Local $hnFolder = FileFindFirstFile($folder & "\*") While 1 $filename = FileFindNextFile($hnFolder) ; If there is no more file matching the search. If @error Then ExitLoop ; file name slice Local $fns = StringSplit($filename, ".") ; ConsoleWrite($fns[1] & " " & $fns[2] & @LF) If $fns[2] <> 'pdf' or $fns[2] <> 'PDF' Then ConsoleWrite("Ignore " & $filename & @LF) ContinueLoop EndIf ; fnwe - file name wihtout extension Local $fnwe = $fns[1] Local $sfPath = $folder & "\" & $filename Local $tfPath = $folder & "\" & $fnwe & ".txt" ConsoleWrite("Processing " & $filename & @LF) ConsoleWrite(" IP " & $sfPath & @LF) ConsoleWrite(" OP " & $tfPath & @LF) CopyText($filename, $sfPath, $tfPath) WEnd EndFunc ; $filename ; $sfPath - source file path ; $tfPath - target file path Func CopyText($filename, $sfPath, $tfPath) Send("^o") WinWaitActive("Open") ControlFocus("Open", "", "[CALSS:Edit1]") ; ConsoleWrite($sfPath & @LF) Send($sfPath) Send("!o") ControlFocus($hnPrw, "", "[CLASS:AVL_AVView14]") Send("^a") Send("^c") ; Sleep(5000) ; Wait untill the copy is complete While 15 = MouseGetCursor() ; WEnd Local $szCbd = ClipGet() ; clip board data Local $fhTxt = FileOpen($tfPath, $FO_OVERWRITE + $FO_UNICODE) ; ConsoleWrite(StringLen($szCbd) & @LF) FileWrite($fhTxt, $szCbd) FileClose($fhtxt) ClipPut("") Send("^w") EndFunc Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MattHiggs Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 3 hours ago, dinesh_devaraj said: Hi All, I developed a AutoIt script which does the following 1. Open Adobe PDF Reader 2. Open a PDF file 3. Copy the contents to clipboard 4. Write the clipboard contents to text file The script does this in a loop for mulitiple files. For testing I have three PDF files. The problem is the PDF files are large hence the copy command Send("^c") takes some time (few secs). Hence when I run the script the content of the PDF file are written to different text file. Say for example the content of 1st PDF file is written in 2nd text file, content of the 2nd PDF file is written in 3rd text file and content of the 1st PDF file is written in the 3rd text file. If I include a sleep command to pause the operation for few seconds the contents are written in the correct output file. Why is it not working without sleep, what am I doing wrong? expandcollapse popup#include <Array.au3> #include <FileConstants.au3> Local $prPdfReader = Run("D:/Softwares/Adobe/Reader/Reader/AcroRd32.exe") Local $hnPrw = WinWaitActive("Adobe Reader") MainExec() ProcessClose($prPdfReader) Func MainExec() If 0 == $CmdLine[0] Then ConsoleWrite("usage> autoit " & @ScriptName & " <folder1> [ <folder2>... <folder62>]" & @LF) EndIf For $I=1 To $CmdLine[0] EachFile($CmdLine[$I]) Next EndFunc Func EachFile($folder) Local $hnFolder = FileFindFirstFile($folder & "\*") While 1 $filename = FileFindNextFile($hnFolder) ; If there is no more file matching the search. If @error Then ExitLoop ; file name slice Local $fns = StringSplit($filename, ".") ; ConsoleWrite($fns[1] & " " & $fns[2] & @LF) If $fns[2] <> 'pdf' or $fns[2] <> 'PDF' Then ConsoleWrite("Ignore " & $filename & @LF) ContinueLoop EndIf ; fnwe - file name wihtout extension Local $fnwe = $fns[1] Local $sfPath = $folder & "\" & $filename Local $tfPath = $folder & "\" & $fnwe & ".txt" ConsoleWrite("Processing " & $filename & @LF) ConsoleWrite(" IP " & $sfPath & @LF) ConsoleWrite(" OP " & $tfPath & @LF) CopyText($filename, $sfPath, $tfPath) WEnd EndFunc ; $filename ; $sfPath - source file path ; $tfPath - target file path Func CopyText($filename, $sfPath, $tfPath) Send("^o") WinWaitActive("Open") ControlFocus("Open", "", "[CALSS:Edit1]") ; ConsoleWrite($sfPath & @LF) Send($sfPath) Send("!o") ControlFocus($hnPrw, "", "[CLASS:AVL_AVView14]") Send("^a") Send("^c") ; Sleep(5000) ; Wait untill the copy is complete While 15 = MouseGetCursor() ; WEnd Local $szCbd = ClipGet() ; clip board data Local $fhTxt = FileOpen($tfPath, $FO_OVERWRITE + $FO_UNICODE) ; ConsoleWrite(StringLen($szCbd) & @LF) FileWrite($fhTxt, $szCbd) FileClose($fhtxt) ClipPut("") Send("^w") EndFunc I think you have answered your own question sir. You have stated that the copy processes hangs for a second due to the size of the content you are copying. When you use the Keyboard shortcuts to "Send" CTRL + C to copy, the script doesn't stop to wait for the copy operation to complete before continuing. It waits the amount of time specified by "SendKeyDelay" in "AutoItSetOption". In order to speed up the copy operation, I would disable any clipboard applications that you have running in the background (like clipboard helper that remembers last 10 clipboard copies), as I find that the presence of these kinds of applications are the cause of these copy hangs quite often. If that doesn't help, I would try clearing your clipboard history as well (there are multiple ways you can do this). Or, you can just stick with the version of the script you have confirmed to work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mLipok Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 You can use PdfTK and mupdf , or QuickPDF UDF , but to use this UDF you should buy ActiveX component from Debenu. Signature beginning:* Please remember: "AutoIt"..... * Wondering who uses AutoIt and what it can be used for ? * Forum Rules ** ADO.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * XML.au3 UDF * IE on Windows 11 * How to ask ChatGPT for AutoIt Code * for other useful stuff click the following button: Spoiler Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind. My contribution (my own projects): * Debenu Quick PDF Library - UDF * Debenu PDF Viewer SDK - UDF * Acrobat Reader - ActiveX Viewer * UDF for PDFCreator v1.x.x * XZip - UDF * AppCompatFlags UDF * CrowdinAPI UDF * _WinMergeCompare2Files() * _JavaExceptionAdd() * _IsBeta() * Writing DPI Awareness App - workaround * _AutoIt_RequiredVersion() * Chilkatsoft.au3 UDF * TeamViewer.au3 UDF * JavaManagement UDF * VIES over SOAP * WinSCP UDF * GHAPI UDF - modest begining - comunication with GitHub REST API * ErrorLog.au3 UDF - A logging Library * Include Dependency Tree (Tool for analyzing script relations) * Show_Macro_Values.au3 * My contribution to others projects or UDF based on others projects: * _sql.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * RTF Printer - UDF * XML.au3 UDF * ADO.au3 UDF * SMTP Mailer UDF * Dual Monitor resolution detection * * 2GUI on Dual Monitor System * _SciLexer.au3 UDF * SciTE - Lexer for console pane * Useful links: * Forum Rules * Forum etiquette * Forum Information and FAQs * How to post code on the forum * AutoIt Online Documentation * AutoIt Online Beta Documentation * SciTE4AutoIt3 getting started * Convert text blocks to AutoIt code * Games made in Autoit * Programming related sites * Polish AutoIt Tutorial * DllCall Code Generator * Wiki: * Expand your knowledge - AutoIt Wiki * Collection of User Defined Functions * How to use HelpFile * Good coding practices in AutoIt * OpenOffice/LibreOffice/XLS Related: WriterDemo.au3 * XLS/MDB from scratch with ADOX IE Related: * How to use IE.au3 UDF with AutoIt v3.3.14.x * Why isn't Autoit able to click a Javascript Dialog? * Clicking javascript button with no ID * IE document >> save as MHT file * IETab Switcher (by LarsJ ) * HTML Entities * _IEquerySelectorAll() (by uncommon) * IE in TaskScheduler * IE Embedded Control Versioning (use IE9+ and HTML5 in a GUI) * PDF Related: * How to get reference to PDF object embeded in IE * IE on Windows 11 * I encourage you to read: * Global Vars * Best Coding Practices * Please explain code used in Help file for several File functions * OOP-like approach in AutoIt * UDF-Spec Questions * EXAMPLE: How To Catch ConsoleWrite() output to a file or to CMD *I also encourage you to check awesome @trancexx code: * Create COM objects from modules without any demand on user to register anything. * Another COM object registering stuff * OnHungApp handler * Avoid "AutoIt Error" message box in unknown errors * HTML editor * winhttp.au3 related : * https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/206771-winhttpau3-download-problem-youre-speaking-plain-http-to-an-ssl-enabled-server-port/ "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto" - Publius Terentius Afer"Program are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers and execute" - Donald Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming" , be and \\//_. Anticipating Errors : "Any program that accepts data from a user must include code to validate that data before sending it to the data store. You cannot rely on the data store, ...., or even your programming language to notify you of problems. You must check every byte entered by your users, making sure that data is the correct type for its field and that required fields are not empty." Signature last update: 2023-04-24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jguinch Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Also, convert a PDF to text with the XPDF library : Spoiler Network configuration UDF, _DirGetSizeByExtension, _UninstallList Firefox ConfigurationArray multi-dimensions, Printer Management UDF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 Writing the accessible text from a PDF file to text file is a function already included in Adobe Reader (free, standard and maintained); there is little to zero need to use any third-party tool. This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinesh_devaraj Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 36 minutes ago, jchd said: Writing the accessible text from a PDF file to text file is a function already included in Adobe Reader (free, standard and maintained); there is little to zero need to use any third-party tool. I tried 'Save As Other -> Text' option. The problem is the content of the file is my language "Tamil". When I tried 'Save As Other' Adobe PDF reader saves the files as UTF-8 or bytes hence all the content is lost. How can I solve this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 UTF8 is perfect and is no problem at all. Why do you want another encoding? This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mLipok Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 37 minutes ago, jchd said: Writing the accessible text from a PDF file to text file is a function already included in Adobe Reader (free, standard and maintained); there is little to zero need to use any third-party tool. It depends on how fast and how many documents are to be processed. In addition, if someone wants to get the text toogether with its coordinates (position of text on a PDF document), then I do not see any free solution, but only commercial solutions such as QuickPDF Library. I may be wrong but just a few years ago I was looking for a completely free solution - but without success, so I finally decided on a commercial solution. Signature beginning:* Please remember: "AutoIt"..... * Wondering who uses AutoIt and what it can be used for ? * Forum Rules ** ADO.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * XML.au3 UDF * IE on Windows 11 * How to ask ChatGPT for AutoIt Code * for other useful stuff click the following button: Spoiler Any of my own code posted anywhere on the forum is available for use by others without any restriction of any kind. My contribution (my own projects): * Debenu Quick PDF Library - UDF * Debenu PDF Viewer SDK - UDF * Acrobat Reader - ActiveX Viewer * UDF for PDFCreator v1.x.x * XZip - UDF * AppCompatFlags UDF * CrowdinAPI UDF * _WinMergeCompare2Files() * _JavaExceptionAdd() * _IsBeta() * Writing DPI Awareness App - workaround * _AutoIt_RequiredVersion() * Chilkatsoft.au3 UDF * TeamViewer.au3 UDF * JavaManagement UDF * VIES over SOAP * WinSCP UDF * GHAPI UDF - modest begining - comunication with GitHub REST API * ErrorLog.au3 UDF - A logging Library * Include Dependency Tree (Tool for analyzing script relations) * Show_Macro_Values.au3 * My contribution to others projects or UDF based on others projects: * _sql.au3 UDF * POP3.au3 UDF * RTF Printer - UDF * XML.au3 UDF * ADO.au3 UDF * SMTP Mailer UDF * Dual Monitor resolution detection * * 2GUI on Dual Monitor System * _SciLexer.au3 UDF * SciTE - Lexer for console pane * Useful links: * Forum Rules * Forum etiquette * Forum Information and FAQs * How to post code on the forum * AutoIt Online Documentation * AutoIt Online Beta Documentation * SciTE4AutoIt3 getting started * Convert text blocks to AutoIt code * Games made in Autoit * Programming related sites * Polish AutoIt Tutorial * DllCall Code Generator * Wiki: * Expand your knowledge - AutoIt Wiki * Collection of User Defined Functions * How to use HelpFile * Good coding practices in AutoIt * OpenOffice/LibreOffice/XLS Related: WriterDemo.au3 * XLS/MDB from scratch with ADOX IE Related: * How to use IE.au3 UDF with AutoIt v3.3.14.x * Why isn't Autoit able to click a Javascript Dialog? * Clicking javascript button with no ID * IE document >> save as MHT file * IETab Switcher (by LarsJ ) * HTML Entities * _IEquerySelectorAll() (by uncommon) * IE in TaskScheduler * IE Embedded Control Versioning (use IE9+ and HTML5 in a GUI) * PDF Related: * How to get reference to PDF object embeded in IE * IE on Windows 11 * I encourage you to read: * Global Vars * Best Coding Practices * Please explain code used in Help file for several File functions * OOP-like approach in AutoIt * UDF-Spec Questions * EXAMPLE: How To Catch ConsoleWrite() output to a file or to CMD *I also encourage you to check awesome @trancexx code: * Create COM objects from modules without any demand on user to register anything. * Another COM object registering stuff * OnHungApp handler * Avoid "AutoIt Error" message box in unknown errors * HTML editor * winhttp.au3 related : * https://www.autoitscript.com/forum/topic/206771-winhttpau3-download-problem-youre-speaking-plain-http-to-an-ssl-enabled-server-port/ "Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto" - Publius Terentius Afer"Program are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers and execute" - Donald Knuth, "The Art of Computer Programming" , be and \\//_. Anticipating Errors : "Any program that accepts data from a user must include code to validate that data before sending it to the data store. You cannot rely on the data store, ...., or even your programming language to notify you of problems. You must check every byte entered by your users, making sure that data is the correct type for its field and that required fields are not empty." Signature last update: 2023-04-24 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinesh_devaraj Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 2 minutes ago, jchd said: UTF8 is perfect and is no problem at all. Why do you want another encoding? Even in my script you can observe that I have passed FO_UNICODE in file open. When I tried to open the file without FO_UNICODE all contents of my file is lost and I see only question marks when I open it in notepad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinesh_devaraj Posted October 20, 2016 Author Share Posted October 20, 2016 Isn't there any other way to wait till the copy completes other that Sleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jchd Posted October 20, 2016 Share Posted October 20, 2016 (edited) @mLipok, The OP never said he needs text positions. @dinesh_devaraj, But $FO_UNICODE isn't UTF8, it's UTF16-LE. Have you tried $FO_UTF8 or $FO_UTF8_NOBOM ? Edited October 20, 2016 by jchd This wonderful site allows debugging and testing regular expressions (many flavors available). An absolute must have in your bookmarks.Another excellent RegExp tutorial. Don't forget downloading your copy of up-to-date pcretest.exe and pcregrep.exe hereRegExp tutorial: enough to get startedPCRE v8.33 regexp documentation latest available release and currently implemented in AutoIt beta. SQLitespeed is another feature-rich premier SQLite manager (includes import/export). Well worth a try.SQLite Expert (freeware Personal Edition or payware Pro version) is a very useful SQLite database manager.An excellent eBook covering almost every aspect of SQLite3: a must-read for anyone doing serious work.SQL tutorial (covers "generic" SQL, but most of it applies to SQLite as well)A work-in-progress SQLite3 tutorial. Don't miss other LxyzTHW pages!SQLite official website with full documentation (may be newer than the SQLite library that comes standard with AutoIt) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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