They have a GPL, unsupported version. But yeah, depending upon what you're writing and for whom, the licensing DOES go up from there!
-AJ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Davis Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "AJ Weber" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Post all your questions about iText here" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:46 PM Subject: Re: [iText-questions] How to extract TIF from a PDF? > Thanks AJ -- I took a look at JPedal. The only caveat with that is > the price tag -> $9K USD. > > On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 12:27 PM, AJ Weber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I use iText whenever I possibly can for PDF creation and manipulation >> (and >> also own the Manning bood). I haven't found that it's good with image >> extraction (if it does it at all). I use jpedal for that. They have >> high >> (and low) level image extraction capabilities that are very good. >> >> Take a look at their website and you'll see some straight-forward >> examples >> (and the provide some example source code as well). >> >> Good Luck, >> AJ >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Davis Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 12:17 PM >> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] How to extract TIF from a PDF? >> >> >>> Since my query below went silent, I'm going to take another stab at >>> it. I also have the Manning iText book, which as far as I can tell -- >>> makes absolutely no mention of this. >>> >>> Let me pose the question another, hopefully simpler way: >>> >>> Q: If I have an existing PDF document that has no PDF content in it >>> other than scanned TIFF images, is there some way to use the iText API >>> to extract that TIFF data as some form of java.awt.image.Image ?? >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Davis >>> >>> On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 12:45 PM, Davis Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> All the documentation / examples trend toward building up a PDF from >>>> various components. >>>> >>>> I have to process PDF files that only contain scanned TIF images. The >>>> PDFs are generated via a fax machine. As the faxes come in, the >>>> content is converted to TIF, and saved into a PDF file. >>>> >>>> I need to extract the TIF image(s) so I can try to scan them for a bar >>>> code value. I have looked at the various methods from PdfReader, >>>> TifImage, PdfDictionary, RandomAccessFileOrArray, and TIFFFaxDecoder, >>>> and I've experimented with them on a PDF file, but so far, I have not >>>> been able to use the API to do what I want. >>>> >>>> Can someone post a simple snippet that shows me how to extract a >>>> TiffImage ? >>>> >>>> Thanks in advance, >>>> Davis >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Zeno Consulting, Inc. >>>> http://www.zenoconsulting.biz >>>> 248.894.4922 phone >>>> 313.884.2977 fax >>>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Zeno Consulting, Inc. >>> http://www.zenoconsulting.biz >>> 248.894.4922 phone >>> 313.884.2977 fax >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, >>> Nevada. >>> The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to >>> help >>> pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at >>> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ >>> _______________________________________________ >>> iText-questions mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >>> >>> Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php >>> >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, >> Nevada. >> The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help >> pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at >> http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ >> _______________________________________________ >> iText-questions mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions >> >> Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php >> > > > > -- > Zeno Consulting, Inc. > http://www.zenoconsulting.biz > 248.894.4922 phone > 313.884.2977 fax > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us at MIX09 to help pave the way to the Next Web now. Learn more and register at http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;208669438;13503038;i?http://2009.visitmix.com/ _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php
