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[Mike Bonner]

That is pretty darn easy.  Sure makes me wish!

On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 1:36 PM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:

> I hear you. Too bad though because with XPDF, the function to fetch all
> the text from a PDF is just:
>
> function pdfText pFile
>   local tUnicodePageText, tUnicodeDocumentText
>   create inv group "pdfViewer" in this card
>   XPDFViewer_Open "pdfViewer",the windowID of this stack
>   XPDFViewer_Set "pdfViewer","filename",pFile
>   put XPDFViewer_Get("pdfViewer","pageCount") into pageCount
>   repeat with pageNumber=1 to pageCount
>     XPDFViewer_Unicode "pdfViewer",pageNumber,tUnicodeText
>     put tUnicodeText after tUnicodeDocumentText
>   end repeat
>   XPDFViewer_Close "pdfViewer"
>   delete group "pdfViewer"
>   return textDecode(tUnicodeDocumentText,"UTF16")
> end pdfText
>
> Maybe LiveCode will have a sale some day in the future that will meet
> your price point.
>
> For other who may have a Business License or just interested in what you
> COULD do with XPDF, I am speaking about it at this Thursdays's LiveCode
> Global.
>
> On 5/12/2018 2:30 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> > Ty Paul.  Unfortunately, a business license is way outside my level of
> > affordability.  Looking into alternative methods to generate the index
> now,
> > though I'd still love to find an lc way to do it.
> >
> > On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 11:30 AM, Paul Dupuis via use-livecode <
> > use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> >
> >> If you have a Business License, you can use the XPDF external available
> >> with those editions for doing that.
> >>
> >> On 5/12/2018 12:58 PM, Mike Bonner via use-livecode wrote:
> >>> I haven't needed to do this before, but is there a (relatively) easy
> way
> >> to
> >>> extract the text from a bunch of pdf files?  I'm hoping I can build
> some
> >>> indexes for the boatload of files I want to go through.  (THough, I
> >> guess I
> >>> could bipass LC and just grep my heart out)
> >>>
> >>> Any suggestions?
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