RE: PDF to Text

2015-04-28 Thread Phil Brewer
Hi A quick thank you to Greg and Leo for their suggestions. In the end we found that calling the "pdftotext" utility (available for most installations - Poppler Utilities) worked perfectly for us - and may help others looking to do the same thing. Phil Brewer From: Phil Brewer [mailto:

Re: PDF to Text

2015-04-19 Thread Leo Susanto
If that is the case, usually the pdf file is only an encapsulation of an image file. Then you need OCR. On Mon, Apr 20, 2015 at 5:34 AM, Phil Brewer wrote: > Hi > > > > Does anyone have any advise on converting a PDF to text, please (the data > I want to read is tabular)? > > I have used PDF::A

Re: PDF to Text

2015-04-19 Thread Suresh Govindachar
On 4/19/2015 3:34 PM, Phil Brewer wrote: > Hi > > Does anyone have any advise on converting a PDF to text, please (the > data I want to read is tabular)? > > I have used PDF::API2 to create PDFs before but it does not seem to be > able to read/parse them. I have also tried CAM::PDF but cannot get t