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in reply to Re: Reading PDF files
in thread Reading PDF files
When I open the PDF using acrobat, I can use the text selection tool to grab some text, so unless they have some FAST OCR software running in there I don't believe it's an image, but a very good warning. |
Re: Re: Re: Reading PDF files
by waswas-fng (Curate) on Jul 21, 2003 at 15:42 UTC
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Depending on the app that created such PDF and the settings/fonts used, you may end up with a pdf that is a bunch of font character bitmaps in sequence or blocked with no underlining text information. Most adobe applications will enbed textual versions in the PDF so the text selection tool can be used to grab plain text from segments in the pdf. I think the point is unles you can be certian how the pdf is generated and you are comfortable with them -- parsing data from them is going to be a large pain in the butt.
-Waswas | [reply] |
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