Take care that etymon PJ is GPL. It's ok if you are doing some work for you but if you intend to distribute it you'll have to distribute the sources of your own work and make it GPL also. There are some command lines from xpdf that extract text but it's not Java. Ghostscript also have something on that.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: jayakumar thuyamani [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 9:33 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: FW: [iText-questions] Re: one question > > hi, > > try to use etymon parser to read a pdf file... it works fine to extract > text from a pdf file... also u will get examples along with jar files. > > www.etymon.com/pj > > > urs, > t.jayakumar > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:04 PM > To: sebastian > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [iText-questions] Re: one question > > > sebastian writes: > > > im sorry to write directly to you but somehow i cant send a mail to > sourceforge and to the mail list. > > my question is very simple, i just want to read the text inside a pdf > file. nothing but the text, no fonts or something like it, just the text > and transform it into a java string. > > is it posible with itext??? how can i do?? whom should i ask? > > When you generate a Pdf file, text and graphics are > 'painted' on a canvas. This 'painting' can happen in > a very random way. > > You can have the sentence: Quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog, > painted in this order: abcde efghi jkl mnooo opQr rst uuvw xyz > So regardless of using iText, it can be very difficult to retrieve > text from a PDF file. > > In iText there is a class PdfReader that reads PRStream- > and PRString-objects and I have had a mail once from somebody > who managed to use these objects to retrieve some text. > You could try this yourself, but I don't think any of the > iText developers will provide this functionality in a > standard way, because we consider PDF to be a ReadOnly format. > > kind regards, > Bruno Lowagie > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
