Re: [fpc-pascal] Searching Text Files

2014-03-19 Thread Michael Schnell
On 03/19/2014 12:19 AM, Martin Collins wrote: One of the things I want to do is search for text/phrases within the pdfs. Do you already know in what way text is coded in PDFs ? I suppose this can be very complicated. - finding the areas in the file that in fact contain text - using the appr

Re: [fpc-pascal] Searching Text Files

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Collins
Thanks for your advice & help Mark, Typical, after spending ages searching, I finally found a couple of pascal solutions this morning once I googled with the word Delphi instead of freepascal/lazarus. Then checked and of course freepascal has the same functionality. The first is reading the

Re: [fpc-pascal] Searching Text Files

2014-03-19 Thread Mark Morgan Lloyd
Martin Collins wrote: Hi, I'm writing a little personal program in Lazarus that manages pdf files. One of the things I want to do is search for text/phrases within the pdfs. Has anybody tried to do this before and if so what is the best (easiest) way you've come across? I've detailed what I

[fpc-pascal] Searching Text Files

2014-03-19 Thread Martin Collins
Hi, I'm writing a little personal program in Lazarus that manages pdf files. One of the things I want to do is search for text/phrases within the pdfs. Has anybody tried to do this before and if so what is the best (easiest) way you've come across? I've detailed what I've been doing below, b