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Hi. From what I understand iText is not meant
to parse PDF and does not support it except of reading the PDF for purposes of
duplicating it or concatenating it with other PDFs. I recently did some search
for various products that produce PDF and I recall seeing some products that
claim that they can do parsing PDF docs and extract text and other info. So
while iText can not do this there are other products that possibly can. Do some
google search. Best regards, Michael From:
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Graziano 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 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 |
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