On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 12:20:29 AM UTC-6, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
> On Friday, February 9, 2018 at 6:04:48 PM UTC+13, Stanley Denman wrote:
> > {'/Title': '1F: Progress Notes Src.: MILANI, JOHN C Tmt. Dt.:
> > 05/12/2014 - 05/28/2014 (9 pages)', '/Page': IndirectObject(465, 0),
> > '/Type': '/FitB'}
> >
> > What a want is the following to end up as fields on my Word template merge:
> > MedSourceFirstName: "John"
> > MedSourceLastName: "Milani"
> > MedSourceLastTreatment: "05/28/2014"
> >
> > If I use keys() on the dictionary I get this:
> > ['/Title', '/Page', '/Type']I was hoping "Src" and Tmt Dt." would be treated
> > as keys. Seems like the key/value pair of a dictionary would translate
> > nicely to fieldname and fielddata ...
>
> It would, except that’s not how the information is represented in the PDF
> file. Looks like what you want is all in the title string. So extracting it
> will require some string manipulation. Do all the title strings follow the
> same format? That should simplify the manipulations you need to do.
Thanks you Lawrence for your response. Sounds like I am going to have to dig in
to Regex to get at the test I want.
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