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Jul 8, 2003, 01:56 AM
 
What is the best way of extracting the text content on the forum pages? I would like to archive some of the useful pages as text files, but "select all" includes all the unnecessary details.

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Jul 8, 2003, 03:52 AM
 
Um copy and paste?
     
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Jul 8, 2003, 04:39 AM
 
Originally posted by clarkgoble:
Um copy and paste?
No. Services->TextEdit->Open Selection.

But there's no good way to exclude "unnecessary details", since a computer would have a hard time to determine what a human would consider unnecessary. See

Services->Summarize

on how that looks like.
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Jul 8, 2003, 04:47 AM
 
I mean is there any kind of utility that can filter out just the content of the posts? I would like to have just the core content, not all those redundant infos.
     
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Jul 8, 2003, 04:54 AM
 
Yeah, I just tried "Summarize", and it looks like it's the best way to extract the content.

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