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.
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