On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, bob gailer <bgai...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Robert Berman wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I must convert a history file in PDF format that goes from May of 1988 to >> current date. Readings are taken twice weekly and consist of the date taken >> mm/dd/yy and the results appearing as a 10 character numeric + special >> characters sequence. This is obviously an easy setup for a very small >> database application with the date as the key, the result string as the >> data. >> >> My problem is converting the PDF file into a text file which I can then >> read and process. I do not see any free python libraries having this >> capacity. I did see a PDFPILOT program for Windows but this application is >> being developed on Linux and should also run on Windows; so I do not want to >> incorporate a Windows only application. >> >> I do not think i am breaking any new frontiers with this application. Have >> any of you worked with such a library, or do you know of one or two I can >> download and work with? Hopefully, they have reasonable documentation. >> > > If this is a one-time conversion just use the save as text feature of adobe > reader. > > >> My development environment is: >> >> Python >> Linux >> Ubuntu version 8.10 >> >> >> Thanks for any help you might be able to offer. >> >> >> Robert Berman >> _______________________________________________ >> Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor >> >> > > -- > Bob Gailer > Chapel Hill NC > 919-636-4239 > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > I tried pyPdf once, just for fun, and it was nice: http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/ -- لا أعرف مظلوما تواطأ الناس علي هضمه ولا زهدوا في إنصافه كالحقيقة.....محمد الغزالي "No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth" Emad Soliman Nawfal Indiana University, Bloomington --------------------------------------------------------
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