Le mardi 25 juin 2013 06:18:44 UTC+2, jyou...@kc.rr.com a écrit :
> Would like to get your opinion on this. Currently to get the metadata out of
> a pdf file, I loop through the guts of the file. I know it's not the
> greatest idea to do this, but I'm trying to avoid extra modules, etc.
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On 06/25/2013 12:15 PM, jyoun...@kc.rr.com wrote:
Thank you Rusi and Christian!
Something I don't think was mentioned was that reading a text file in
Python 3, and specifying latin-1, will work simply because every
possible 8-bit byte is a character in Latin-1 That doesn't mean that
those
On 25/06/2013 17:15, jyoun...@kc.rr.com wrote:
Thank you Rusi and Christian!
So it sounds like I should read the pdf data in as binary:
import os
pdfPath = '~/Desktop/test.pdf'
colorlistData = ''
with open(os.path.expanduser(pdfPath), 'rb') as f:
for i in f:
I guess the string constant 'XYZ:colorlist' needs to be a byte-string -- use b
prefix?
Dunno for sure. Black hole for me -- unicode!
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Thank you Rusi and Christian!
So it sounds like I should read the pdf data in as binary:
import os
pdfPath = '~/Desktop/test.pdf'
colorlistData = ''
with open(os.path.expanduser(pdfPath), 'rb') as f:
for i in f:
if 'XYZ:colorList' in i:
colorlistDat
Am 25.06.13 08:33, schrieb rusi:
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:48:44 AM UTC+5:30, jyou...@kc.rr.com
wrote:
1. Is there another way to get metadata out of a pdf without having
to install another module? 2. Is it safe to assume pdf files should
always be encoded as latin-1 (when trying to read it th
On Tuesday, June 25, 2013 9:48:44 AM UTC+5:30, jyou...@kc.rr.com wrote:
> 1. Is there another way to get metadata out of a pdf without having to
> install another module?
> 2. Is it safe to assume pdf files should always be encoded as latin-1 (when
> trying to read it this way)? Is there a chanc
Would like to get your opinion on this. Currently to get the metadata out of a
pdf file, I loop through the guts of the file. I know it's not the greatest
idea to do this, but I'm trying to avoid extra modules, etc.
Adobe javascript was used to insert the metadata, so the added data looks
som
