Windows, PdfToText.exe + sort

[justaveragejoe]

Hello,

I want to open PDF and convert it to sorted lines. Otherwise it will show false positives when rows are in wrong order.

I was able to sort my PDF convert text in Linux with this:

pdftotext %s - |sort > %t

This works like a charm and I don't see many lines if I show only diffs.

I was not able to do the same in Windows.

I think this should work, but no:

PdfToText.exe%s - |sort > %t

Is somebody able to help?

[Aaron]

Hello,

The command line you are attempting on Windows does not look like a valid Windows command line. You can test external to BC4 using the Windows command prompt, and a literal file name input.pdf for the source, and temp.txt for the output, to see if it can generate results.

I was able to make a pdfsort.bat file, which contained:
"c:\program files\beyond compare 4\PdfToText.exe" %1 %2
sort %2 /o %2

And testing on the command line. Then set the External Conversion in BC4 to:
pdfsort.bat %s %t
Disable Editing enabled.

[justaveragejoe]

Thank you Aaron. I was able to do what I wanted to achieve.