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Le 22/12/2013 à 16:08, koenig.yvan <email@hidden> a écrit :

Le 22/12/2013 à 15:48, koenig.yvan <email@hidden> a écrit :

Le 22/12/2013 à 14:17, Thomas Fischer <email@hidden> a écrit :

Hello,

if you want to do any serious conversion from PDF to text I would advise to try PDFbox (http://pdfbox.apache.org/). It is much better than pdftotext or Skim or the Apple built-in tools in recognising non-ascii characters and spaces. I use a script that contains something like

set classpath to "…"
set theFile to "…"
set theCall to "java -Xmx1G -classpath " & classpath & " org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText -encoding UTF-8 -sort -nonSeq "
if theFormat is "Html" then
set theCall to theCall & "-html "
set theSuffix to ".html"
else
set theSuffix to ".txt"
end if
set the text item delimiters to {"."}
set newPath to (text items 1 thru -2 of theFile as text) & "-1" & theSuffix
do shell script theCall & quoted form of theFile & space & quoted form of newPath

Best
Thomas

Hello Thomas

May you explain to an ass like me what is supposed to be the true value of class path.

I just downloaded pdfbox-app-1.8.3.jar

I assumes that it's the quoted form of the Posix Path of the jar file but I wish to check before running it.

No problem for theFile.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 22 décembre 2013 15:48:02

Don't worry, I got it.

set theFormat to "txt"
set classpath to quoted form of POSIX path of ((path to applications folder from user domain as text) & "pdfbox-app-1.8.3.jar")
set theFile to POSIX path of ((path to desktop folder as text) & "prix Gerbino.numbers - copie.pdf")

set theCall to "java -Xmx1G -classpath " & classpath & " org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText -encoding UTF-8 -sort -nonSeq "
if theFormat is "Html" then
set theCall to theCall & "-html "
set theSuffix to ".html"
else
set theSuffix to ".txt"
end if
set the text item delimiters to {"."}
set newPath to (text items 1 thru -2 of theFile as text) & "-1" & theSuffix
do shell script theCall & quoted form of theFile & space & quoted form of newPath

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) dimanche 22 décembre 2013 16:08:36

References:
	>pdftotext (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)
	>Re: pdftotext (From: Shane Stanley <email@hidden>)
	>Re: pdftotext (From: Christopher Stone <email@hidden>)
	>Re: pdftotext (From: Thomas Fischer <email@hidden>)
	>Re: pdftotext (From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>)
	>Re: pdftotext (From: "koenig.yvan" <email@hidden>)