First of all, I was under the understanding that the PDF document format was fully documented in the white papers on adobe's website. If I am correct (I'll have to check), then it isn't "cracking" at all, it is simply using the data in the documents to provide a useful service.

Second, this is for a client, who WANTS to have their pdf documents searched. I'll be very disappointed if the pdf format is a closed standard, but I believe you are wrong.

Third, there are already a number of utilites out there that convert from PDF to another format, such as PS and txt, which I doubt are the result of reverse engineering.

So, I belive my question is valid, though unfortunely I'm not finding a lot of answers. Please do feel free to correct me on any of the above points though.

Mel

In reply to Who said anything about cracking? by Melvin
in thread Reading PDF Files? by Melvin

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