Get text from scanned pdf

[Anonymous]

Hi, I got a group of pdf files of scanned drawing putting in the same folder. I would like to extract the drawing title for each drawing by VBA and the title is located in the same location of the drawing.

Say, all the files are in "C:\user\user\download" and the title is at the right bottom corner of the page. Each file consists of 1 page only.

Since installation of VBA for autocad is not allowed in my computer. Probably I have to run the programme in excel.

Thanks a lot.

[Ed__Jobe]

You're facing two major challenges. First, VBA doesn't have any methods to extract info from a pdf. Second, a scanned image/pdf doesn't have any text. It's just pixels.

[Anonymous]

I thought I can import the pdf into autocad. Is it possible to turn the text in scanned image into text object through the import?

[Ed__Jobe · Accepted solution]

A pdf is sort of like a zip file, it contains other files. In the case of a scanned dwg, the input is an image. It's like taking a photo of the dwg. Inside AutoCAD attaching this type of pdf is like using the IMAGEATTACH command. There is no text to recognize. You can use OCR software on the original image, or utilize Raster Design's OCR capabilities. But the PDFIMPORT command does not convert raster to vector.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your reminding