Bob,
Thank you for the quick reply. I am acquainted with that method, and
that will certainly work to do some really serious testing; but, the
data collection is an ongoing process and the users are requesting that
every month the latest entries (8) are brought into the system. What is
rather irksome is that the output from the system cannot be changed from
PDF to text; so obviously I am going to have to resolve the situation at
my end.
I am envisioning a simple program that once started reads the data file,
converts the data into text, and then sends the data to the database.
The program doesn't care if there are 8 test results or 80,000 test
results. That is why i am looking for a python module.
Thanks again,
Robert Berman
bob gailer 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
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