topic Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC in Modeling

Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Tom Krowka — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 19:15:49 GMT

Is there any way to import .doc or .txt file into AC so the text in the original file comes in to the program as text. The original file has lots of text boxes within which the real text resides. Cut and paste would not be practical as there is a lot of text. I could practically retype it quicker.

Can't seem to find a way to do that. Seems simple....

Thanks Tom

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Erika Epstein — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:43:23 GMT

Tom,
Try copy & paste.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Tom Krowka — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:14:56 GMT

Original text is in text boxes. There must be 1000 text boxes. Have to open each text box in the orginal, copy, then go to AC, do a text command, then paste. Don't want to do that 1000 times. Looking for the import the whole file method.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Erich — Tue, 09 Dec 2014 23:47:50 GMT

You could try printing the documents as PDFs then importing and exploding the PDF file in ArchiCAD.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Erika Epstein — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:27:03 GMT

Sorry Tom, misread your original post.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Tom Krowka — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:40:59 GMT

Explode the PDF? Didn't know that was an option. I tried it with the explode into current view command but it didn't work. This PDF was created by a scan, rather than exported out into a PDF format. That may be the problem.....any thoughts on that?

Thanks

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Erika Epstein — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:01:53 GMT

Start typing

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Tom Krowka — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 21:11:10 GMT

Bummer. But thanks anyway as I didn't know that was one of the new features. I guess I need the original PDF not the scanned copy.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Erich — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 04:10:22 GMT

I thought you said it was a .doc or a .txt file. If you are working from a scan you are out of luck with the explode pdf option. It's a cool feature when it works though.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Tom Krowka — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 13:25:35 GMT

I have the file in three formats. None of which I can import directly. Multiple bummers.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Laszlo Nagy — Thu, 11 Dec 2014 23:36:39 GMT

Tom wrote:
Explode the PDF? Didn't know that was an option. I tried it with the explode into current view command but it didn't work. This PDF was created by a scan, rather than exported out into a PDF format. That may be the problem.....any thoughts on that?

Thanks

You should use an Optical Character Recognition software to convert the image texts to real texts, then saves as PDF, then import into ArchiCAD and explode.
I did not check but I can even imagine there are web sites that offer optical character recognition as a free service.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Anonymous — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 03:59:59 GMT

If you have acrobat pro you can perform text recognition then copy and paste all into ArchiCAD and will paste as text

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Erich — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:21:23 GMT

If you have a .doc or .txt file are they text based (the .txt certainly should be). Can't you save out as a .pdf? I see you are on Windows, on Mac that functionality is baked into the OS.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Link — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 18:25:03 GMT

The doc file should work. Can you upload it?

Cheers,
Link.

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 01:11:13 GMT

Can you not convert or save the Doc file as pdf, then import into AC & explode?

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Karl Ottenstein — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 02:50:55 GMT

Rogerdodge wrote:
Can you not convert or save the Doc file as pdf, then import into AC & explode?

Discussed earlier in the thread...

Re: Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

Anonymous — Sat, 13 Dec 2014 04:29:49 GMT

It was too!