Why would working through the PostScript be easier than doing this on
the original PDF?
You can get to all the PDF operators just fine.
Font & text information is more easily referenceable from the PDF
PostScript also has "XObjects", Patterns, etc. that may contain text.
etc.
Not understanding the logic :(.
Leonard
On Oct 6, 2007, at 4:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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
>
> -------------- Original message from krammark
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: --------------
>
>
> >
> > 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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