I have hundreds of PDF files that are mostly text, with multiple tables, that I need to convert to another format. XLS would be fine, XML could work, but I’m doing RTF, since that was in Adobe’s examples.
I gave up using the AppleScript save as command with a conversion and I’m trying to use do script with a Javascript command, but nothing seems to work.
The export works perfectly from the user interface.
Any suggestions?
Here’s the script I’m using
on open (fileList)
repeat with thisFile in fileList
set thisFile to thisFile as alias
set newPath to thisFile as text
tell application "Finder"
set fileExtension to the name extension of thisFile
end tell
set AppleScript's text item delimiters to {"rtf", fileExtension}
set newPath to (text items of newPath) as text
set newPath to POSIX path of newPath
tell application "Adobe Acrobat Pro"
open thisFile
tell document 1
set mySaveAsScript to "this.saveAs(\"" & newPath & "\", \"com.adobe.Acrobat.rtf\");"
do script mySaveAsScript
end tell
close document 1
end tell
end repeat
end open
