iText doesn't extract text. Paulo
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Graziano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 7:39 PM Subject: [iText-questions] Can An Existing PDF-document Be Read And Output? To all, I recently became aware of iText and have successfully used it to write PDF-documents from text. However, now I need to go the other way. I'd like to read an existing PDF-document and create output. The FAQ page answers the question Is it possible to parse an existing PDF-document and convert it to another format (HTML, DOC, EXCEL)? with the answer No, the pdf format is just a canvas where text and graphics are placed without any structure information. As such there aren't any 'iText-objects' in a PDF file. For instance: you can't retrieve a table object from a PDF file. Tables are formed by placing text and lines at selected places. I understand this and probably should just accept it at face value, but I thought that I'd ask anyway. There is a PdfReader class. Isn't there anyway of reading the file and writing some if not all of it's textual features out? Thx * rgds mjg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? > Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job > easier > Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
