Yes; but it is not practicable with iText. You could, however, as long as the
PDF is printable, use the following procedure:
1. Print to a PS file.
2. Scan the PS file from step1 above, dropping all lines that do not end
with Tj or TJ.
3. Use a regular expression (together with Substitution or Match) to
extract the instances of "text fragment" from within multiple instances of
"(text fragment)Tj", printing the resulting text fragments to STDOUT.
Bruno has given an excellent example of why you should not expect the resulting
output to make sense, i.e., the text fragments may not appear in the order in
which you'd like for them to appear.
Cheers,
Bill Segraves
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>
> so , how we read the data from pdf ?
> i mean , can we read them line by line from the specific pages ?
>
> thanks buddy.
>
>
> Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
> >
> > krammark wrote:
> >> hey gusy,
> >> do u guys have a idea how to read the data from pdf pages using itext ?
> >> basically, i want to read the data from table and write them into excel
> >> files.
> >> is that possible ?
> >
> > There is no such thing as 'a table' in plain PDF.
> > It's just lines and words painted on a canvas,
> > possible in an arbitrary order.
> >
> > Unless your tables cells are form fields, or your
> > PDF contains specific table structures (Tagged PDF),
> > iText probably won't help you.
> >
> > br,
> > Bruno
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