need your opinion

[Longshot6977]

Dietant, you seem to know this very well, but some of it looks Greek to me. Is there a program you could recommend that allows the Equibase PDF result charts to be converted into Excel where it could read these super/sub scripts?

Can we play around with their x,y positions ourselves in those programs to make them look 'correct' so we can sort and review the data in Excel? I think a lot of us could really benefit from properly converting the PDFs to Excel. Thanks.

[dietant]

" The HTML output of ABLE2EXTRACT Pro v8 looks like it would be the easiest to parse if you were able to do that." Vegasone.

with:
Foxit PDF Editor
Delete any type of object from the pages;
Change font, font size, color and other text attributes for text objects
......
1 convert to html with ABLE2EXTRACT PROFESSIONAL version 6.0
or ABLE2EXTRACT PROFESSIONAL version 8.0 from INVESTINTECH.com
2 Import the .html to Excel
3 analyze the strings of characters in order to associate groups of characters with their super's and sub's
or
1 convert to txt with Foxit PDF2TXT
2 Import the .txt to Excel
3 analyze the strings of characters in order to associate groups of characters with their super's and sub's
......

[dietant]

for Equibase charts use Foxit PDF Editor
for each race delete any type of object from the pages as logo, images, all data below "winner;", footnotes etc.
change font, font size, color and other text attributes for text objects
save charts (using ur special name)
convert to excel with ABLE2EXTRACT PROFESSIONAL version 6/8.
Parse (No probls with helvetica, helvetica-bold fonts)
for Bris charts:
Need to HACK the PDF!
Remove the pdf protection with PDF Pasword Remover from verypdf.com Inc
Edit the pdf with Foxit PDF Editor
convert to html with ABLE2EXTRACT PROFESSIONAL version 6/8
import the html page tables from Excel.
Parse.
I do not like hack bris docs so I would rather use equibase.