How to extract whole text from a PDF file with the PDF

[Paul McClernan]

Ah, OK thanks for the clarification. I hadn’t realize PDFium has been
around as long as it has been.
I wouldn’t sweat the naming conflict, there’s at least three “PDFKit”
libraries so you’re not alone.

On Tue, Dec 14, 2021 at 11:01 AM Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> On 12/14/2021 10:33 AM, Paul McClernan via use-livecode wrote:
> > I was fairly certain that XPDF external was/is based on this XPDF:
> > https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xpdf
> > Which has both GPL and Proprietary Licensing options available.
>
> Nope. My company (Researchware) and I paid for the development of the
> XPDF External shipped with LiveCode. Monte did the code for us when he
> was an independent LiveCode developer, paid directly by Researchware. It
> is based on the C++ "external" API template, calling the Google PDFium
> library. Researchware then transferred the license to LiveCode when
> Monte went to work for them. I called it XPDF because it was an eXternal
> for PDFs. I was unaware (at the time) for anything else using the XPDF
> name. And yes, I am to blame (or credit) for the majority of the syntax
> for messages, commands, and functions of the XPDF external (with Monte
> correcting me when I had a really stupid syntax specified)
>
> >
> > The newer (> 9.6.3) PDF Widget is based on PDFium which is an offshoot
> > project that spawned from Google’s Chromium project. I’m not sure about
> the
> > licensing involved with that.
> >
> > If you’re running macOS I released a (semi-complete) library that uses
> > Apple PDFKit (not to be confused with several other PDFKits that are out
> > there, such as this JS PDFKit: https://pdfkit.org ). That can extract
> text
> > from PDF, per-document or per-page.
> >
> > At some point I may update that library, adding the ability to extract
> RTF
> > styled text and also make iso it can use UIView, which would make
> available
> > on iOS devices too, but I’m really busy right now so that’s not likely to
> > get attention from me anytime soon.
> >
> >
> > On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:47 PM Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Richmond wrote:
> >>
> >>   > On 12.12.21 21:33, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> >>   >> Stam Kapetanakis wrote:
> >>   >> > i presume the pdf widget in pro is the opensource xpdfReader but
> >>   >> > don’t know for sure.
> >>   >>
> >>   >> If it is that would be problematic, as the open source edition of
> >>   >> xpdfReader is licensed under GPL, and LC no longer has an edition
> >>   >> compatible with GPL.
> >>   >
> >>   > The consequences are endless.
> >>
> >> Note my "if".
> >>
> >> In the next message in this thread Paul clarified that the component is
> >> not derived from a GPL-governed work, so the rights and responsibilities
> >> of the GPL do not apply here:
> >>
> http://lists.runrev.com/pipermail/use-livecode/2021-December/266435.html
> >>
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