Re: Existing Parsers

[Chas Emerick]

There are a number of libraries for Java that provide PDF text 
extraction functionality.  A pretty comprehensive list is available at 
< http://www.geocities.com/marcoschmidt.geo/java-libraries-pdf.html >.  
I'm obviously biased towards recommending our solution, PDFTextStream < 
http://snowtide.com/home/PDFTextStream/ >; it's the fastest thing out 
there for Java, and it provides a very easy-to-use Lucene integration 
module that will have you up and running in no time < 
http://snowtide.com/home/PDFTextStream/techtips/easy_lucene_integration 
>.

For office documents, just about the only game in town that I know of 
is the Jakarta POI project < http://jakarta.apache.org/poi/ >.  It's 
been quite a while since I've touched it, but it's definitely the best 
place to start.

Chas Emerick   |   [EMAIL PROTECTED]
PDFTextStream: fast PDF text extraction for Java apps and Lucene
http://snowtide.com/home/PDFTextStream/
On Sep 9, 2004, at 9:47 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Anyone know of any reliable parsers out there for pdf word
excel or powerpoint?

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