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dennis.list@unisa.edu.au (Dennis List) wrote in message news:<62e1a63b.0401221511.67647dc1@posting.google.com>...
> I was pleased when Adobe Reader 6 came out with a "save as text"
> option - no more need to scan PDF documents to extract text, and no
> need to buy the outrageously expensive Indesign.
> 
> But on trying to use the "save as text" option, I find the text
> (though all there) is out of sequence. In one file I saved as text (to
> extract tables of statistics, for input to Excel) the table cells
> appeared in backwards order, and upside down! I tried a simpler
> document, and the last lines of some paragraphs (just a few) were out
> of order, before the paragraphs they referred to.
> 
> If this is consistent, it makes the "save as text" feature rather
> useless. Does anybody think this is a cunning plot by Adobe, or is
> there some strange logic to the sequencing? And has anybody else
> noticed this? I searched the Web and Newsgroups, and found no other
> reference. Surely I'm not the only one having this problem.


I found the solution. Very simple: just get version 6.0.1, instead of
the older version (presumably 6.0) that was causing the problem.

Wouldn't you expect Adobe to try a bit harder to get it right,
specially when this was (I'm pretty sure) a new feature in version 6,
and a lot of people would be wanting to try it?