Re: Reading The Text of PDF files
Re: Reading The Text of PDF files
- Subject: Re: Reading The Text of PDF files
- From: Hasan Diwan <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2003 13:43:39 -0400
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There is iText <itext.sourceforge.net>, which is a Java library to
manipulate PDFs. Perhaps this is what you're looking for?
On Thursday, Oct 2, 2003, at 11:35 US/Eastern, Ben Dougall wrote:
On Thursday, October 2, 2003, at 02:56 pm, Lorenzo wrote:
Hi,
thank you but if I want to sell my software I have to pay for xpdf.
Do you
know some other really free methods in order to get the text from PDF
files?
Thank you.
isn't it gnu licensed? i'm pretty sure it is, and seeing as it
compiles into a command line tool you can contain it within your
bundle and easily use it as an external thing from your code without
any legal problems i think. (that's external as in not mixing your
code with pdf2text's code - two separate things, but from the user's
point-of-view one application)
how have you got on with the .doc to plain text conversion? i'd be
interested to know if you had any success with that, and if so what
route / method did you use?, as i'd like to do the same soon.
thanks, ben.
Best Regards
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Lorenzo
email: email@hidden
From: Ben Dougall <email@hidden>
Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2003 15:19:14 +0100
To: Lorenzo <email@hidden>
Cc: email@hidden
Subject: Re: Reading The Text of PDF files
On Wednesday, October 1, 2003, at 02:33 pm, Lorenzo wrote:
Hi,
how can I get the pure text from a PDF file?
pdf2text which is part of xpdf, an open source pdf thing. the
pdf2text
part does not involve any gui stuff and is pretty easily (i managed
it)
compiled and run as a command line tool in os x and does exactly what
you're asking.
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