Actually you probably want to use pdftoxml, including in the poppler-utils. If that is giving you too many mistakes, maybe checkout an OCR engine such as Tesseract.
Reparsing the XML shouldn't give you too much trouble; if it is, ask me and I'll give you access to the poppler repo I modified ~8 months ago which included my algorithms for extracting logical structure information from PDFs by post-processing the XML and regenerating XML containing the modified markup. On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 1:32 AM, Jean-Philippe Green <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello. I asked about this on the IRC with no luck, so I'll try this instead. > > How can I use the poppler utils (such as pdftotext) in my software without > executing a platform dependent executable? Is it included somewhere in the > library? > > > If you want to know, I'm trying to do a software that reads a pdf-schedule > from the company where I work and make an icalendar that can be used in > google calendar and more. They can't provide a calender file so I feel I > need to do this. I want all of my co-workers to be able to use it too, so I > need to do it platform independent. > > Thank you! > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
