On Tuesday 21 April 2009 11:05:32 am Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: > Hi Robert > > I don't have an answer but can have my sympathy. I've been looking for a > quality pdf to text convertor for months and not turned up anything useful. > I've tried many free programs which are poor. I too wanted a Python-only > solution and tried pyPdf but that didn't work. Just today I download a > trial version of a so called top-notch converter and it produced unfaithful > text. Not sure what the answer is! > > Dinesh > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >----- > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:44:16 -0400 > From: Robert Berman <berma...@cfl.rr.com> > Subject: Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion > To: "Emad Nawfal (???? ????)" <emadnaw...@gmail.com> > Cc: tutor@python.org > Message-ID: <49ee05f0.3080...@cfl.rr.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1256; format=flowed > > Hello Emad, > > I have seriously looked at the documentation associated with pyPDF. This > seems to have the page as its smallest element of work, and what i need > is a line by line process to go from .PDF format to Text. I don't think > pyPDF will meet my needs but thank you for bringing it to my attention. > > Thanks, > > > Robert Berman
Have you tried going from a PDF to PS and then to text? -- John Fabiani _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
