Robin Becker wrote: > rbt wrote: > ...... > > > > I just want to read PDF files in a portable way (windows, linux, mac) > > from within Python. > > > ...... > > I suppose you mean extract PDF pages and do something with them. > http://www.reportlab.com does have a tool that handles that in > Python. > It's not free though.
I imagine that you pay for a reasonable level of support. > There are indeed a number of perl modules which do that and other > modules which allow you to overprint etc etc. > > You can always hand translate one of the extract perl modules. They > don't seem that hard. Alternatively put a good case to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Before embarking on that route, it might be worth looking at this page: http://phaseit.net/claird/comp.text.pdf/PDF_converters.html There's a link to a (surprisingly recent) snapshot of my own package, that can be used to read some PDF files, and another highly recommended module. In the interests of balance, if not completeness, I should also mention PDF Playground which has better support for reading and writing PDF files: http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfplayground/ Maybe this should also be listed on the above resources page. Cameron? Are you reading this? ;-) David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list