On Wednesday 17 March 2010 00:47, Aahz wrote: > In article > <af0830ae-1d24-4db9-b721-d6602fedd...@15g2000yqi.googlegroups.com>, > Peng Yu <pengyu...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>I don't find a general pdf library in python that can do any >>operations on pdfs. >> >>I want to automatically highlight certain words (using regex) in a >>pdf. Could somebody let me know if there is a tool to do so in python? > > Did you Google at all? "python pdf" finds this as the first link, though > I have no clue whether it does what you want: > > http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
The original poster might also be interested in displaying the highlighted words without modifying the original file. In which case, the Poppler library is worth investigating: http://poppler.freedesktop.org/ David -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
