rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Not really a Python question... but here goes: Is there a way to read > the content of a PDF file and decode it with Python? I'd like to read > PDF's, decode them, and then search the data for certain strings.
I've had success with both: <http://www.boddie.org.uk/david/Projects/Python/pdftools/> <http://www.adaptive-enterprises.com.au/~d/software/pdffile/pdffile.py> although my preference is for the latter as it transparently handles decryption. (I've previously posted an enhancement to the `pdftools` utility that adds decryption handling to it, but now use the `pdffile` library as it handles it better.) The ease of text extraction depends a lot on how the PDFs have been created. --Phil. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
