RE: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only

[Stephen Milligan]

There's a nice pdf2html one as well.   Very handy if you want to publish the contents online in a format other than pdf.   http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/   And a GUI for it   http://guiguy.wminds.com/downloads/pdf2htmlgui/   Spike -------------------------------------------- Stephen Milligan Code poet for hire http://www.spike.org.uk Do you cfeclipse? http://cfeclipse.tigris.org   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Colm Brazel Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only Spike, ta for that, just installed the windoze ver on xp pro. "To generate a plain text file, run pdftotext" in dos shell:     pdftotext file.pdf   tried on a test pdf,worked great, other features as well   thanks again   Colm -----Original Message----- From: Stephen Milligan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2004 18:25 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only Just realized that the pdftotext stuff also works on windows.   There's a few useful looking tools based on it.   Spike -------------------------------------------- Stephen Milligan Code poet for hire http://www.spike.org.uk Do you cfeclipse? http://cfeclipse.tigris.org   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stephen Milligan Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 9:18 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only If you're on *nix you could have a look at xpdf...   http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/about.html   Spike -------------------------------------------- Stephen Milligan Code poet for hire http://www.spike.org.uk Do you cfeclipse? http://cfeclipse.tigris.org   From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alex Skinner Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 6:48 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only Colm,   Thanks for the reply but, i dont see how FOP is going to help, i have used that before and it helps for production of pdfs but what im trying to do is take an existing pdf document and convert it either into xml document, html or straight text output ?   Have you seen anything that does that ?   Alex From: Colm Brazel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2004 15:11 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only FOP is what you need   latest CFDJ there's an interesting article on using a free Apache FOP(Formatting Objects Processor) that can be used with CFMX to create free pdf's and other formats http://xml.apache.org/fop/output.html, its a java application and the article by Nate Nelson describes how to configure it for CFMX     WBR   Colm -----Original Message----- From: Alex Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 18 June 2004 14:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ cf-dev ] PDF 2 Text only Hi,   Has anyone got any experience of converting pdf docs into text or html on the fly with cfmx, are there any free java based modules that can do this ?   Cheers Alex --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.657 / Virus Database: 422 - Release Date: 13/04/2004 avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0425-1, 17/06/2004 Tested on: 18/06/2004 15:11:10 avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software. --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.657 / Virus Database: 422 - Release Date: 13/04/2004 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.657 / Virus Database: 422 - Release Date: 13/04/2004 avast! Antivirus: Outbound message clean. Virus Database (VPS): 0425-1, 17/06/2004 Tested on: 18/06/2004 18:56:45 avast! is copyright (c) 2000-2003 ALWIL Software.