V
Vailma
I am trying to submit a resume that I have in PDF but it is not allow in the web page I am into. How can I copy and paste as a text a document in PDF files?
M
MC
If you use the Apple program Preview to open your pdf you can select the
text and save it to the clipboard, and paste it into just about
anything.
J
John McGhie
{Shouts of laughter!!} You evil person 
I would love to see you try this on some unsuspecting employment agent's
website
Unfortunately, your resume would not participate in the job application
process. But it would be fun to see what their software made of this
For anyone who doesn't get the joke that MC is making: The "reason"
websites ask for submissions in Word or Plain Text is so their computer
software can slice and dice the words into a database.
Some of this software (most of it!) can't parse PDF: especially if it is
embedded in a Word document, because it appears as a graphic. So most of
this software will simply reject or delete the submission.
The owner of the website only looks in the database for candidates, they
never look at the original document. Unless you send them what they ask
for, you are eliminating yourself from the race.
This is a bad time to be missing job applications because you didn't know
that
Cheers
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John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]
I would love to see you try this on some unsuspecting employment agent's
website
Unfortunately, your resume would not participate in the job application
process. But it would be fun to see what their software made of this
For anyone who doesn't get the joke that MC is making: The "reason"
websites ask for submissions in Word or Plain Text is so their computer
software can slice and dice the words into a database.
Some of this software (most of it!) can't parse PDF: especially if it is
embedded in a Word document, because it appears as a graphic. So most of
this software will simply reject or delete the submission.
The owner of the website only looks in the database for candidates, they
never look at the original document. Unless you send them what they ask
for, you are eliminating yourself from the race.
This is a bad time to be missing job applications because you didn't know
that
Cheers
--
Don't wait for your answer, click here: http://www.word.mvps.org/
Please reply in the group. Please do NOT email me unless I ask you to.
John McGhie, Microsoft MVP, Word and Word:Mac
Nhulunbuy, NT, Australia. mailto:[email protected]
C
Clive Huggan
So ignoring John's and Matthew's badinage and to answer your question,
Vailma:
1. open the PDF and use the "Select" tool to see whether you can select the
text (you'll be able to if the originator created the PDF via the "Print"
menu)
2. if you can't select the text, the PDF was created by scanning as an
image, so use an OCR (optical character recognition) application to read it
and convert it into "keyed-in" text -- use Google, or maybe
versiontracker.com, to see the applications available.
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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Vailma:
1. open the PDF and use the "Select" tool to see whether you can select the
text (you'll be able to if the originator created the PDF via the "Print"
menu)
2. if you can't select the text, the PDF was created by scanning as an
image, so use an OCR (optical character recognition) application to read it
and convert it into "keyed-in" text -- use Google, or maybe
versiontracker.com, to see the applications available.
Cheers,
Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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