Re: pdftotext
Re: pdftotext
- Subject: Re: pdftotext
- From: Deivy Petrescu <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:36:02 -0500
While Preview is not fully scriptable (it is scriptable!) I’d suggest you use Skim (<http://skim-app.sourceforge.net>).
It is free.
On Dec 20, 2013, at 16:08 , Christopher Stone <email@hidden> wrote:
> Hey Folks,
>
> There's a nice little unix executable called pdftotext.
>
> http://www.bluem.net/en/mac/packages/
>
> I needed to rename a bunch of receipts in my web-receipts folder that were conducive to automation.
>
> Fifteen minutes of scripting just saved me roughly 1 1/2 hours of work, so I'm going to build upon that foundation and write a smart-receipt-renamer script.
>
> A snippet with the text-extracter code and the date-conversion code:
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> tell application "Finder"
> set sel to selection as alias list
> end tell
>
> if sel ≠ {} then
> set _file to first item of sel
> set _filePx to quoted form of (POSIX path of _file)
>
> set _data to do shell script "/usr/local/bin/pdftotext -raw " & _filePx & " -"
>
> # Search for desired information and extract if found.
> # ...
>
> # Reformat date using the shell with input format: Jan 01, 2014 ouput: 2014-01-01
> set _cmd to "date -j -f \"%d-%b-%y\" \"" & _date & "\" \"+%Y-%m-%d\""
> set _date to do shell script _cmd
>
> end if
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Of course I'm using the Satimage.osax's regex engine to do the heavy lifting.
>
> My question is:
>
> Is there a better way to script the extraction of text from an unlocked pdf?
>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> Best Regards,
> Chris
>
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