PDF Expert to the rescue! Автор темы: CafeTran Trainer
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After several attempts to merge 19 PDFs into one single reference PDF for a huge German > Dutch technical project, PDF Expert was able to merge the password protected files into a gigantic PDF with 1500 pages!
Perfect software!
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I use it for my combinations from/to: Romanian, Moldovan, Italian, English. v.3.10.12 for MAC.
It also include the OCR feature and exporting in different formats (word, excel, pdf...)
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CafeTran Trainer wrote:
After several attempts to merge 19 PDFs into one single reference PDF for a huge German > Dutch technical project, PDF Expert was able to merge the password protected files into a gigantic PDF with 1500 pages!
Perfect software!
I just exported that huge PDF to text. After two minutes I got a very clean plain text file for further processing. I love software that just works perfectly.
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Kardas Tradu 
Италия
Local time: 15:32
Член ProZ.com c 2011
итальянский => польский
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All your posts sound like a free publicity!
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| I'm not a MAC user ... | Mar 31 |
... so I can't investigate the suggested prowess of PDF Expert for myself.
I know from having developed several Windows apps for PDF file creation and manipulation that the inner workings of the format are moderately complex and demand rigorous attention to fine detail, but the merging of a set of standard-compliant PDFs into one doesn't require miracles. The fact that PDF Expert managed to merge 19 PDFs into one 1500-page file is surely more a matter of scale than of astute handli... See more ... so I can't investigate the suggested prowess of PDF Expert for myself.
I know from having developed several Windows apps for PDF file creation and manipulation that the inner workings of the format are moderately complex and demand rigorous attention to fine detail, but the merging of a set of standard-compliant PDFs into one doesn't require miracles. The fact that PDF Expert managed to merge 19 PDFs into one 1500-page file is surely more a matter of scale than of astute handling of the basic process.
That said, I'd be interesting in knowing a bit more about PDF Expert's handling of the password protection to which you have afforded much emphasis - but given no details. For example:
- did your 19 source documents all use the same password?
- did it ask you to enter that/those password(s) before the merge began?
- did it deliver a password-protected file? - and if so, how did that password relate to that/those for the source files?
- did the app reveal the supposedly password-protected content of any of the files on your screen (or otherwise leave it susceptible to leaks...)?
Also, as you are no doubt aware, a PDF file holds chunks of repetitive content (logos, fonts, etc.) as resource objects that are referenced as and when required in the flow of the document. It also contains one or more metadata objects which store the document properties (author, title, producer, etc.). I wonder if your 1500-page PDF file re-used such resources across the entire document, or if, instead, they were repeated time and again. And did the properties (metadata) in the 1500-page PDF adequately reflect the origins of the merged PDF?
Finally, did any of the 19 documents have internal cross-references (eg to a index, or between paragraphs) - and if so what did PDF Expert do with all the complexity associated with that?
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Mario Chávez
США
Local time: 09:32
Член ProZ.com c 2024
английский => испанский
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| The goal of combining multiple PDF files | Mar 31 |
If the goal was to combine these 19 PDF files into a single PDF file for references only (text searches? Confirmation of terms used?), then, that's good.
However, I almost never use reference PDF files like that. If I combine PDF files, I never export them to a plain-text file. To me, reference PDF files serve as layout guides.
MC
CafeTran Trainer wrote:
CafeTran Trainer wrote:
After several attempts to merge 19 PDFs into one single reference PDF for a huge German > Dutch technical project, PDF Expert was able to merge the password protected files into a gigantic PDF with 1500 pages!
Perfect software!
I just exported that huge PDF to text. After two minutes I got a very clean plain text file for further processing. I love software that just works perfectly.
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Kardas Tradu wrote:
All your posts sound like a free publicity!
That's normal speak of Apple fanboys.
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Jennifer Levey wrote:
The fact that PDF Expert managed to merge 19 PDFs into one 1500-page file is surely more a matter of scale than of astute handling of the basic process.
The amazing thing was that it did so while the PDFs were protected by a password.
- did your 19 source documents all use the same password?
- did it ask you to enter that/those password(s) before the merge began?
- did it deliver a password-protected file? - and if so, how did that password relate to that/those for the source files?
I don't know the password(s).
No, it didn't.
The delivered file didn't have a password.
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Mario Chávez wrote:
If the goal was to combine these 19 PDF files into a single PDF file for references only (text searches? Confirmation of terms used?), then, that's good.
That was indeed the goal.
(The export to text was only a secondary goal, for other purposes.)
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| So, basically, what you are so enthusiastic about ... | Apr 1 |
CafeTran Trainer wrote:
Jennifer Levey wrote:
The fact that PDF Expert managed to merge 19 PDFs into one 1500-page file is surely more a matter of scale than of astute handling of the basic process.
The amazing thing was that it did so while the PDFs were protected by a password.
- did your 19 source documents all use the same password?
- did it ask you to enter that/those password(s) before the merge began?
- did it deliver a password-protected file? - and if so, how did that password relate to that/those for the source files?
I don't know the password(s).
No, it didn't.
The delivered file didn't have a password.
... is the fact that PDF Expert allowed you to gain (possibly illegal/illicit/illegitimate) access to the content of one or more password-protected PDF files ... ?
JL
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Yes, I liked the fact that I could merge the files my client provided to me into one big PDF for reference. Nothing wrong with that.
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