Personally, I've never had to convert a .pdf to an Excel sheet, but that's gotta be a cute trick of coding I would think..pdf is a closely-guarded Adobe property, and Excel is a Microsoft product, so you can imagine the (legal?) issues one would have to surmount to get the conversion to work.Some...
Marking Digital Copy
Three things I had to get used to when I began making the switch-over from TV News Anchorman to voiceover talent:I could do more than one take of any particular copyI could mark-up my scriptsI could gesticulate all I wanted when delivering linesI still struggle with all three. In fact, I've...
OCR for PDF (PDQ)
Digital document management is the new pencil sharpener. To be truly paperless, you sometimes have to resort to more and more esoteric software programs. "The Cloud" used to be fringe, now it's mainline, and one of the tools that helps us save paper and the cost of printer cartridges But more...
Handling docs
Handling documents is part 'n' parcel of the voice over trade. We get copy in all sorts of forms: .doc / .docx / .pdf / .txt / .rtf / .ppt / .png / .jpg / .xls / .rgi (I made up that last one) Not always, but sometimes, it's just in the wrong format for being able to read it right, or do a...