The issue you are going to run into is that a PDF file isn't organized in the
same way that you are trying to work with it. You won't just get "a bunch of
text"…
You would probably be better served finding a nice "PDF to Text" application or
library and then calling that from your own program.
Leonard
From: Jean-Philippe Green
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
To:
"[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>"
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [Podofo-users] Parsing a pdf-schedule to create a .ical or .csv
Hi there!
Where I work we get our schedules in visual pdf files, which really bothers me
because I want to sync it with my calendar (google calendar in my case). So I
decided write a program that will parse the pdf file and do a icalendar or csv
file. Although I don't know much c++, I decided to do it in that language to
get to know it better.
As for now, I have done a "work_day" class which holds all information for one
work day, such as date, start time, end time and name of the shift. Then I have
a main file which reads the pdf and writes it to a csv (the format will be
optional later). But when it comes to reading the pdf it's getting really
hard. I succeed to get the first stream object and decode it, but then I have
no idea what to do with it.
I'm not sure if I completely understand how I'm supposed to use PoDoFo, so I
would be pleased if I could get some directions to how I'm supposed to tackle
this problem. I would also be happy if you told me how I'm supposed to code in
c++, because I'm sure my coding style isn't following the "standard" way of
doing things. I'm including my schedule and the cpp files. You shouldn't need
to read work_day.cpp and csv_schedule.cpp, but I include them in case you're
curious.
Anyways, thanks for doing this library. I understand that a lot of work has
been put into this.
PS.
If you wonder why I have a French name and the pdf includes a lot of Swedish,
it's because I have a French mother and I live in Sweden.
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