Hi Adobe lurkers,
Kingsley has just handed you a valuable means to keep users tied to your
technologies:
On 10/6/2014 8:18 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 10/6/14 2:49 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
On 10/06/2014 11:03 AM, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
On 10/6/14 12:48 PM, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote:
I'm not saying that it is so simple. You do have to find the metadata
block in the PDF and then look for the /Title, /Author, ... stuff.
But it could be simple if PDF didn't have the issues I outlined in
regards to extraction technology. Funnily enough, there's a massive
opportunity for Adobe to solve this problem, especially as they've now
ventured heavily into cloud enabling their technologies, If they provide
APIs from the cloud, this problem could become much simpler to address
in regards to productive solutions where PDFs become less of the data
silos that they are today.
Of course, it probably makes sense for Adobe to do the work, but there
is also enough known in open source about PDFs for a third party to do
this as well.
Good idea, K!
Mike
