Sorry, I don't want to be a pain in the ass, but do none of you guys have
an idea how I can handle this problem? Either with podofo or with some
other tool.
2012/7/10 Jean-Philippe Green <[email protected]>
> Forgot to include file
>
>
> 2012/7/10 Jean-Philippe Green <[email protected]>
>
>> The problem with the "PDF to Text" tools I've tried is that I don't know
>> where the text is placed. I know under what week, because it first tells me
>> the intervall of dates and then the shift times, but I don't know what day
>> it's under (see included file). So I figured I must know the placement of
>> the characters to figure out under what week day it is, and use that as an
>> offset from the first date in that week. For example, if you look at
>> 12-07-04 we would first need to know the base date, ie 12-07-02 and then
>> add 2 because it's placed under wednesday and not monday. You can look how
>> I handle that in work_day.cpp.
>>
>> Could you please elaborate a little more on how pdf's work? Is it that
>> every character are at different places in the document? Although it's
>> annoying I guess I'll have to deal with it in order to know where the text
>> is placed. Pdf does tell where every character/string is placed, right?
>>
>>
>> 2012/7/10 Leonard Rosenthol <[email protected]>
>>
>>> 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]>
>>> To: "[email protected]" <
>>> [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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