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Re: Is there an API to extract text from PDF files?
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Re: Is there an API to extract text from PDF files?



If you're not looking for a strictly Quartz solution, I'd suggest
looking at PDFbox.  It's an open Java based pdf processing library
that will allow a pdf -> text conversion.

On 11/21/05, David Niemeijer <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have been looking at the quartz documentation for an API to extract
> the text from PDF files, but so far only found APIs to access the
> building blocks of PDF files. Is there no high level API to extract
> text in a human readable form (words, sentences, paragraphs)? Or is
> PDF Kit, which is 10.4 and later, the only API providing such
> functionality?
>
> Thanks,
>
> david.
>
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