Thanks very much for this information. Maybe you could offer me some direction of how to solve my problem?
I need to parse pdf mobile phone bills. the information i require is the itemized data that is in a table format. Is this possible with itextpdf? On 19 June 2010 08:44, 1T3XT info <i...@1t3xt.info> wrote: > Ben Short wrote: >> subType is /Type3 >> >> Does this help identify the problem? > > Yes, but it doesn't bring us closer to a solution. > > Type 3 fonts are "user defined fonts". > > See for instance: > http://itextpdf.com/examples/index.php?page=example&id=200 > In that example, a 'delta' and 'sigma' shaped glyph was defined, > corresponding with the characters 'D' and 'S'. However, the example > would also have worked if we'd used any other character. > > Another example: we could define a glyph that looks like the symbol for > 'The Artist Formerly Known As Prince' to correspond with the character > 'P'. That's what Type 3 fonts are about: they can be used when a user > needs a glyph that isn't provided in any other font. > Therefore it's very hard to extract that content: how are you going to > know that the glyph corresponding with 'P' needs to be 'translated' to > 'The Artist Formerly Known As Prince'? I don't think there's a UNICODE > code point for that glyph. > > I think you've hit a limitation regarding text extraction in general. > -- > This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA > http://www.1t3xt.com/ - http://www.1t3xt.info > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate > GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the > lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: > http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo > _______________________________________________ > iText-questions mailing list > iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions > > Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ > Check the site with examples before you ask questions: > http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ > You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/ > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
