Import .TXT or .DOC file into AC

[Tom Krowka]

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

[Laszlo Nagy]

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.

[Anonymous]

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

[Erich]

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.

[Link]

The doc file should work. Can you upload it?

Cheers,
Link.

[Anonymous]

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

[Karl Ottenstein]

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

Discussed earlier in the thread...

[Anonymous]

It was too!