Parsing a PDF file

[Dan Brown]

> Doesn’t that just let you show PDFs? Would it help to parse the contents?

Using the "pdftotext" component of Xpdf you can use a shell command to
extract the text from a pdf and place it into for example a text file
which you can then parse

something like..
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put  "C:\pdftotext" & " -layout" & " " & pPDF & " " & pTEXTFILE into tcommand

PUT shell ( tcommand ) into meh
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pPDF is the location and filename of the PDF file you want to process,
pTEXTFILE is the location and name of the text file you want to create




On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Colin Holgate <colinholgate at gmail.com> wrote:
> Doesn’t that just let you show PDFs? Would it help to parse the contents?
>
> I’m trying another approach, will report back soon.
>
>
>> On Jul 8, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.brett at livecode.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 08/07/2016 15:11, Jim Hurley wrote:
>>> My County is now publishing the election results to the web as a PDF file:
>>>
>>>      https://www.mynevadacounty.com/nc/elections/docs/2016%20Elections/June%207%2c%202016%2c%20Presidential%20Primary/Election%20Results/precinctreport.pdf
>>>
>>> Is there a way to parse these PDF  files?
>>
>> The XPDF external, which is now available as part of LiveCode Business, is probably what you're looking for.
>>
>>                            Peter
>>
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