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Re: pdf extractor [message #64740 is a reply to message #64630]

Thu, 15 January 2009 07:14

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On 12 Jan, 17:17, Allan Whiteford
<allan.rem...@phys.remove.strath.ac.remove.uk> wrote:
> oxfordenergyservi...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> does anybody know of an idl function to extract text from apdffile?
>> or something similar on linux?
>
>> Thanks
>
> How about:
>
> +++
>
> 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
>
> +++
>
> Not really IDL as-such but maybe it'll do what you need.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allan

thanks

It tells me what I need to know. pdftotext isn't on my linux but i'll
get it put on then I'll be away!

Russ

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