> At my day job, we use pdfbox (see www.pdfbox.org) in automated tests.  It
> basically grabs raw textual data and spits out two-dimensional arrays of
> strings.
>
> While it's java based, it may shed a light on how text extraction can be
> done.  I do not, however, know if their licensing model will fit your needs
> (i.e. if you base your code on theirs, is that even allowed).

Yes, already had a look at that. But I was hoping I don't have to
spend the time to translate that to Objective-C myself.

It's BSD licensed - so license-wise that would be fine.

> There's some links on their site (http://www.pdfbox.org/references.html)
> which shows how someone wrote a Cocoa app and used the Java bridge to
> interface with pdfbox.

Uh ...interesting. Was hoping for something native though.

Thanks for the pointer!

cheers
--
Torsten
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