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Re: pdf extractor [message #64630]

Mon, 12 January 2009 09:17

Allan Whiteford
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Registered: June 2006

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oxfordenergyservices@googlemail.com wrote:
> does anybody know of an idl function to extract text from a pdf file?
> or something similar on linux?
>
> Thanks

How about:

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IDL> spawn,'pdftotext working_with_color.pdf -',text
IDL> for i=0,4 do print,text[i]
Chapter 3
Discovering the Possibilities

Working with Color
Chapter Overview

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Not really IDL as-such but maybe it'll do what you need.

Thanks,

Allan

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