Ah that makes sense. I only see the behavior in pdftotext. ps2ascii doesn't give me the layout , which for my purposes, I certainly need.
Thanks for the info, Looks like I'll keep searching for that silver bullet.:( On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 20:07:50 -0500, rbt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tom Willis wrote: > > 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*. > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- Thomas G. Willis http://paperbackmusic.net -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list