directory you want. The only requirement is that the JAR file is
included in CFMX's classpath. Ask your hosting company if they will do
that for you.
Matt Liotta
Montara Software, Inc.
http://www.MontaraSoftware.com
On Dec 30, 2003, at 6:18 PM, Michael R. Levy wrote:
> PDFBox certainly does what I need, in a JAR.��Thanks Matt.
>
> 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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