Sept. 19, 2013
11:48 a.m.
On Sep 19, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Gavin Brown wrote:
While it's very easy to extract useful data from ISO-3166, the two PDF documents I found are a different matter.
Copying and pasting text (especially non-ASCII text) out of a PDF is potentially risky: when I tried using Adobe Reader on Mac OS X I had very little luck, getting either nothing at all or a series of junk characters.
You'll find that some of these documents simply won't allow you to cut & paste what you want, because parts of the text have been converted to bitmaps inside the document. Best regards -lem