Does anyone know of a CFX to extract the text from a PDF file so that it can
be used in a variable?

I'll tell you why I want to do this: I have an application that allows a
user to enter several kinds of data about a PDF file while uploading the
file to the server.

The search function opens a page with various data about the PDF file and
also opens the PDF file itself.

Currently the application uses <cfexecute> and pdftotext.exe, and adds the
text that is thus extracted from the PDF file into the Verity index along
with all the user-added data.

This way, the extracted PDF string data is associated directly with the
user-added data and can be used the way I want it.

However, we're moving the whole application to a hosted, shared server, and
cannot run <cfexecute> there.

I know Verity can index PDF files directly, but then that would be separate
from the other user-entered data about the PDF file.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Michael
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