On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote: > On Mon, November 1, 2010 19:42, Marcos Douglas wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:36 PM, Tomas Hajny <xhaj...@hajny.biz> wrote: >>> On Mon, November 1, 2010 19:20, Marcos Douglas wrote: >>>> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 3:10 PM, Marco van de Voort <mar...@stack.nl> >>>> wrote: >>>>> In our previous episode, Marcos Douglas said: >>>>>> <albertonardu...@yahoo.com> wrote: >>>>>> >> Somebody can help me please? >>>>>> >> I need to search strings in Text files using just FPC. >>>>>> > >>>>>> > how about reading every line and then using Pos() to see if some >>>>>> string is >>>>>> > there? >>>>>> > >>>>>> >>>>>> I don't think this way is the fast way :( >>>>>> I have many PDF files with several pages each. >>>>> >>>>> You'll be surprised. I've done multi million line logfiles that way. A >>>>> pdf2txt is infinitely slow compared with such processing. >>>> >>>> Ok, but I need to work with pure text. The PDF files are "compiled". >>> >>> Sorry, I'm confused now. Do you want to search for text strings within >>> PDF >>> files or within regular text files? >> >> I need to search for text strings in PDF files... but I don´t know do >> that, so I use the pdf2txt[1] to convert in pure text. >> If there is a unit that can search for text within a PDF file, would >> be the best solution for me. > > I see, but that means that Marco's comment applies - conversion of PDF > files to pure text will probably require more time than finding your > string within the (converted) text file.
I agree. But as I search for text within PDF files? Marcos Douglas _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
