Spike, ta for that, just installed the windoze ver on xp pro. "To generate a plain text file, run pdftotext" in dos shell:
 
  pdftotext file.pdf
 
tried on a test pdf,worked great, other features as well
 
thanks again
 
Colm
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From: Stephen Milligan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Just realized that the pdftotext stuff also works on windows.
 
There's a few useful looking tools based on it.
 
Spike

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Milligan
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:18 AM
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If you're on *nix you could have a look at xpdf...
 
 
Spike

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Skinner
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:48 AM
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Colm,
 
Thanks for the reply but, i dont see how FOP is going to help, i have used that before and it helps for production of pdfs but what im trying to do is take an existing pdf document and convert it either into xml document, html or straight text output ?
 
Have you seen anything that does that ?
 
Alex


From: Colm Brazel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 June 2004 15:11
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Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only

FOP is what you need
 
latest CFDJ there's an interesting article on using a free Apache FOP(Formatting Objects Processor) that can be used with CFMX to create free pdf's and other formats http://xml.apache.org/fop/output.html, its a java application and the article by Nate Nelson describes how to configure it for CFMX
 
 
WBR
 
Colm
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From: Alex Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 18 June 2004 14:57
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Subject: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only

Hi,
 
Has anyone got any experience of converting pdf docs into text or html on the fly with cfmx, are there any free java based modules that can do this ?
 
Cheers

Alex

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