I'd love to see that PDF, if you can post it... On 1/31/13 7:56 AM, "Gerold Krommer" <gerold.krom...@rrdgds.at> wrote:
>Not that I know enough about PDF to contribute anything significant but >out of curiosity (which-lo and behold- killed the cat) I tried C&P with >PDF-Xchange Viewer >Into notepad and the text was extracted beautifully (while Acrobat X >gives scrambled garbage). First few lines from Ambulo Report.pdf are >below, so the info must be somewhere > >Kind regards, > >/Gerold > >Patient Information >Name Demo - Hypertensive Last Primary physician >Patient ID ID1 >Date of birth >Height, >Weight >Tuesday, October 10, 1972 >170 cm, 78 kg >Interpreting >physician >Statistical Overview >Start Time Tuesday, January 29, 2008, 17:40 >Stop Time Wednesday, January 30, 2008, 17:10 >Duration 23 Hours >Measurements 37 Total: 37 Included, 0 Excluded, 0 Events, 0 Errors >Complete (37 Included, 100%) Mean Difference between Awake and Asleep >Min Mean Max StdDev mmHg % drop >Systolic >118 164.4 195 28.0 >Systolic >41.8 23 % >Diastolic >81 107.3 125 12.8 >Diastolic >22.2 19 % >Pulse 72 82.3 92 5.3 Pulse 0.9 1 % >MAP 95 124.2 146 15.1 MAP 25.4 19 % >Systolic > >140 >70.3 % >Diastolic > > >-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- >Von: mkl [mailto:m...@wir-sind-cool.org] >Gesendet: Donnerstag, 31. Jänner 2013 13:41 >An: itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >Betreff: [iText-questions] [SPAM] Re: Not able to read text from ItextShap > >Kiran Ghadge, > >Kiran Ghadge wrote >> I am using itextsharp for reading text from PDF file. >> I have attached sample project. >> Below is code snippet. But the I am not able to get text from page. > >The code snippet in your message contained collected no text and printed >no text. Thus, I assume, that code did not produce the output. > >The code in the attached project, on the other hand, collects and outputs >text from the accompanying PDF. It first does a funny conversion, though: > >(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ASCIIEncoding.Convert(Encoding.Default, >Encoding.UTF8, Encoding.Default.GetBytes(text)))) > >Such a conversion should not be necessary if the text from the PDF can be >properly read. > >Here is your actual problem, though: The PDF does not seem to contain the >correct information for text extraction at all, just try to do it using >Adobe Acrobat (which is quite good at text extraction), for me it returns >assorted symbols only. > >Therefore, I'm afraid for PDFs like the one given you either have to >resort to a custom extraction routine with a very special byte to text >conversion, or you have to use OCR. > >Regards, Michael > > > >-- >View this message in context: >http://itext-general.2136553.n4.nabble.com/Not-able-to-read-text-from-Itex >tShap-tp4657491p4657496.html >Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for >free today: >http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan >_______________________________________________ >iText-questions mailing list >iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > >iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. >Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a >reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check >the keywords list before you ask for examples: >http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php >-------------------------------------------------------------------------- >---- >Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. >Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics >Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: >http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan >_______________________________________________ >iText-questions mailing list >iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > >iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. >Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a >reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ >Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: >http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_jan _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions iText(R) is a registered trademark of 1T3XT BVBA. Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
