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Subject: Re: Script to extract text from PDF
On Tuesday, September 25, 2007 at 1:41:56 PM UTC-4, brad wrote:
> I have a very crude Python script that extracts text from some (and I
> emphasize some) PDF documents. On many PDF docs, I cannot extract text,
> but this is because I'm doing something wrong. The PDF spec is large and
> complex
you can try this free online pdf text extractor
http://www.online-code.net/pdf-to-word.html to extract text from pdf free
online.
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On Sep 26, 11:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 26, 4:49 pm, Svenn Are Bjerkem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have downloaded this package and installed it and found that the
text-extraction is more or less useless. Looking into the code and
comparing with the PDF spec show a very early
On Sep 25, 10:19 pm, Lawrence D'Oliveiro [EMAIL PROTECTED]
central.gen.new_zealand wrote:
Doesn't work that well...
This is inherent in the nature of PDF: it's a page-description language, not
a document-interchange language. Each text-drawing command can put a block
of text anywhere on the
David Boddie wrote:
There's a little information on that online:
http://www.glyphandcog.com/textext.html
Thanks, I'll read that.
Just because inserting and encoding is well documented doesn't mean that the
reverse processes are easy. :-/
Boy, that's an understatement... most of the PDF
On Sep 25, 9:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 25, 3:02 pm, Paul Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Googling for 'pdf to text python' and following the first link
giveshttp://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
Doesn't work that well, I've tried it, you should too... the author
even admits this:
On Sep 26, 4:49 pm, Svenn Are Bjerkem [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have downloaded this package and installed it and found that the
text-extraction is more or less useless. Looking into the code and
comparing with the PDF spec show a very early implementation of text
extraction. Luckily it is
On Wed Sep 26 23:50:16 CEST 2007, byte8bits wrote:
On Sep 26, 4:49 pm, Svenn Are Bjerkem svenn.bjer... at googlemail.com
wrote:
I have downloaded this package and installed it and found that the
text-extraction is more or less useless. Looking into the code and
comparing with the PDF
On Sep 25, 6:41 pm, brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have a very crude Python script that extracts text from some (and I
emphasize some) PDF documents. On many PDF docs, I cannot extract text,
but this is because I'm doing something wrong. The PDF spec is large and
complex and there are various
On Sep 25, 3:02 pm, Paul Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Googling for 'pdf to text python' and following the first link
giveshttp://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
Doesn't work that well, I've tried it, you should too... the author
even admits this:
extractText() [#]
Locate all text drawing commands,
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sep 25, 3:02 pm, Paul Hankin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Googling for 'pdf to text python' and following the first link
giveshttp://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
Doesn't work that well...
This is inherent in the nature of PDF: it's a
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