Re: reading a PDF
Re: reading a PDF
- Subject: Re: reading a PDF
- From: "Torsten Curdt" <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:01:37 +0100
> At my day job, we use pdfbox (see www.pdfbox.org) in automated tests. It
> basically grabs raw textual data and spits out two-dimensional arrays of
> strings.
>
> While it's java based, it may shed a light on how text extraction can be
> done. I do not, however, know if their licensing model will fit your needs
> (i.e. if you base your code on theirs, is that even allowed).
Yes, already had a look at that. But I was hoping I don't have to
spend the time to translate that to Objective-C myself.
It's BSD licensed - so license-wise that would be fine.
> There's some links on their site (http://www.pdfbox.org/references.html)
> which shows how someone wrote a Cocoa app and used the Java bridge to
> interface with pdfbox.
Uh ...interesting. Was hoping for something native though.
Thanks for the pointer!
cheers
--
Torsten
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