Yes, I am familiar with the XPDF external (based on Google's PDFium
library), having designed it and paid Monte to code it and then turned
it over to LiveCode.
I was referring to the PDF Widget (also based on Google's PDFium), which
should have a comparable property for fetching the text of a page. The
LC dictionary does not list any property for returning the page text, so
I assume that is a Dictionary/Documentation error and that Monte can
tell us the correct property of the PDF widget that will return the text
of a page.
On 12/10/2021 7:05 PM, matthias rebbe via use-livecode wrote:
Paul,
here on mac OS the dictionary of LC 10 DP1 definitely lists the function
XPDFViewer_Text(viewerName, pageNumber).
Btw. checking this showed me that this function seems to be deprecated and
instead the command
XPDFViewer_Unicode viewerName, pageNumber, variableName
should be used.
Am 10.12.2021 um 23:22 schrieb Paul Dupuis via use-livecode
<use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>:
There must be an undocumented property for the text of a page - there was a
function to return the full text of a page in the External (XPDF) and to get
the full text of the PDF file, you just stepped through the pages (1..N)
getting and concatenating the page text.
Monte? LC 10.0.0 Dictionary does not list a property for the page text.
On 12/10/2021 4:46 PM, Torsten Holmer via use-livecode wrote:
Hi,
I have a PDF file with text and pictures, but I just want the text.
I can do it manually with Ctrl-A and Ctrl-Copy by viewing the file with Preview
on MacOS.
I have a business licence and want to use the PDF widget but I cannot find a
way to do it.
Can someone help me out?
Cheers,
Torsten
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