Gabrielle, I want to get the text of any arbitrary PDF file. Is there a spec I can look at ?
There is an open source toolset, wvware.com that does it but I'd rather not look at their code Thanks --- Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribi�: > Hi Anton, > > On Thursday, September 26, 2002, 11:54:15 AM, you > wrote: > > A> Gabriele wrote a pdf generator, but he said > parsing > A> pdf files is really hard, but perhaps just the > text > A> might be easier. > > It depends. If you are lucky, getting the text out > of it is really > easy. You can easily get the text out of a PDF > generated by PDF > Maker. > > However, if the file is compressed and/or > encrypted, you need to > do a fair amount of job to get to the text... > And usually, PDF > files are at least compressed. > > Regards, > Gabriele. > -- > Gabriele Santilli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- > REBOL Programmer > Amigan -- AGI L'Aquila -- REB: > http://web.tiscali.it/rebol/index.r > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email > to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the > subject, without the quotes. > _______________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versi�n: Webcam, voz, y mucho m�s �Gratis! Desc�rgalo ya desde http://messenger.yahoo.es -- To unsubscribe from this list, please send an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe" in the subject, without the quotes.
