I"m stuck; if anyone can help, much appreciated!
We're going to a shared server ColdFusion MX 6.1 server. They can't/won't
put a JAR in the WEB-INF for me (because it's shared).
Is there a way to load up a bunch of JAR's from a directory somewhere under
my docroot, and access a method from CFM?
-----Original Message-----
From: Matt Liotta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 8:30 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Extract text from PDF?
PDF Box (http://www.pdfbox.org/) provides a Java API for extracting
text from a PDF.
Matt Liotta
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.MontaraSoftware.com
On Dec 19, 2003, at 8:13 PM, Michael R. Levy wrote:
> 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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