See DocumentFont.fillMetrics() for some ideas.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Day [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 5:07 PM
> To: itext-questions-request@
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Help with parsing the PDF
> generated by Crystal reports-V9
>
> Paulo-
>
> Are there any examples or documentation that show how to use
> iText to work with CMaps (esp when parsing PDF content)?
>
> I have code that does the required spacial analysis, etc...
> I wound up abandoning the project when I hit the CMap
> situation and started using PDFBox for parsing PDF text
> content - but that library does not handle cross reference
> streams, so I'm faced with either adding cross reference
> stream support to PDFBox, or re-visiting the text parsing in
> iText. Personally, I'd prefer to do the work to get the text
> parsing working in iText...
>
> Thanks,
>
> - K
>
>
> ----------------------- Original Message -----------------------
>
> From: Paulo Soares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> <itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net>
> Cc:
> Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 16:36:36 +0000
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Help with parsing the PDF
> generated by Crystal reports-V9
>
> Text extraction in PDF is rocket science. Your simplistic
> method may work or not depending on the encoding used. Your
> workflow is flawed, you'd better look for other ways to do
> it, ways that don't involve looking for text in the PDF.
>
> Paulo
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Umashankar Palani [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 3:46 PM
> > To: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net
> > Subject: [iText-questions] Help with parsing the PDF
> > generated by Crystal reports-V9
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am trying to parse the contents of the PDF with iTextSharp using :
> >
> > PdfReader reader = new PdfReader("Test.pdf");
> > reader.GetPageContent(pageNumber);
> >
> > byte[] pageContentByteArray;
> >
> > I am using this byte array to search for a partcular text
> > based on a Delimiter pattern by converting this to string by using -
> >
> > string test = Encoding.ASCII.GetString(pageContentByteArray);
> >
> > I am able to match the required text pattern inside the
> > string generated using the above statement. The above logic
> > works absolutely fine if we use a normal PDF input file.
> >
> > My requirement is to read a PDF file which is created by
> > CRYSTAL REPORTS (Version-9).
> >
> > I have a byte array of the page with me. But I tried to
> > convert to string using ASCII, UNICODE , UTF8, UnicodeBig..
> >
> > string test =
> > Encoding.ASCII.GetString(invoicePageContentByteArray);
> > string test =
> > Encoding.Unicode.GetString(invoicePageContentByteArray);
> > string test =
> > Encoding.UTF8.GetString(invoicePageContentByteArray);
> > ..... also using UnicodeBig
> >
> > The output is not in the readable format. I could not find
> > any text in the page appearing in the output string. I guess
> > the PDF generated out of crystal reports is using some other
> > encoding format.
> >
> > (Note : We verified the template used by crystal reports to
> > generate the PDF. The search delimiter pattern is defined as
> > the Text object)
> >
> > There should be some way of doing the above. Not sure what is
> > that I am missing here. Can anyone please suggest ideas to
> > resolve the above problem.
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Uma
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