A program for batch editing .txt files?

[idea]

I did OCR conversion to about 1300 PDF's for a customer and now I have to convert them to speech for CD. Sounds pretty simple... but now the hard part: each text file is filled with a header and footer that is unnecessary. Now I need to remove them. I'd seriously consider doing it by hand but I didn't get THAT much money for the job. It's already turning out to be more time put in than I thought.

Each unneccessary line is almost exactly alike so it shouldn't be hard to match them.

Format is kind of like this but it may vary file to file a tiny bit:

 

[bersl2]

sed or perl

Seriously, that's exactly what those two are for.

 

[jfall]

sed -e 's/Uniform unneccessary lines//g'

 

[idea]

Yeah I got a linux box... never got into scripting though. Guess it's time to learn.

 

[catrats]

See if ReplaceEm will meet your needs.

 

[idea]

Originally posted by: catrats
See if ReplaceEm will meet your needs.

My man.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

UltraEdit will work as well.

 

[idea]

Nah, both of these programs aren't good for me. It's not as simple as just replacing a line. I have to match a line and delete all the text before it. Then I have to match another line and delete all the text after it. Instead of deleting one, by one, by one...