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Re: Extracting Text from a PDF or EPS
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Re: Extracting Text from a PDF or EPS


  • Subject: Re: Extracting Text from a PDF or EPS
  • From: Leonard Rosenthol <email@hidden>
  • Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 09:12:52 -0500

At 10:17 PM -0800 2/5/01, email@hidden wrote:
Can anybody lead me in a direction that would enable me to extract text from
a PDF or EPS file?

You are going to need a 3rd party application/OSAX to do this for you - one that know about the gory details of PDF and/or EPS. The formats are both complex and involve compression and other types of filtering - not to mention that text is not necessarily in read order.

Try Ghostscript <http://www.ghostscript.org>.


Leonard


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