Well sporadic spaces in strings would cause problems would it not?
an example....
The String: "Patient Face Sheet"--->pdftotext--->"P a tie n t Face Sheet"
I'm just curious if you see anything like that, since I really have no clue about ps or pdf etc...but I have a strong desire to replace a really flaky commercial tool. And if I can do it with free stuff, all the better my boss will love me.
No, I do not see that type of behavior. I'm looking for strings that resemble SS numbers. So my strings look like this: nnn-nn-nnnn.
The ps2ascii util in ghostscript reproduces strings in the format that I expect. BTW, I'm not using pdftotext. I'm using *ps2ascii*.
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