On Mi, 2015-06-24 at 08:13 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > > On Wed, 24 Jun 2015, Marc Santhoff wrote: > > > On Di, 2015-06-23 at 09:10 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > >> > >> On Tue, 23 Jun 2015, Marc Santhoff wrote: > >> > >>> On So, 2015-06-21 at 00:33 +0200, Michael Van Canneyt wrote: > >>>> > >>>> On Sat, 20 Jun 2015, Marc Santhoff wrote: > >>>> > >>>>> Hi, > >>>>> > >>>>> does fpc (or lazarus) have a helper class for indexing the content of > >>>>> PDF files? > >>>> > >>>> check packages/fpindexer > >>>> > >>>> I have used it to create full text searches on a database. > >>>> You should be able to adapt the base code to create an index of a PDF. > >>> > >>> That looks pretty intresting. And it has some docs, wow. > >>> > >>> If I understand correctly I'd only have to implement a class TIReaderPDF > >>> and the difference to simple text reading is the part that extracts a > >>> text stream or the text parts of the stream rejecting the pdf commands > >>> (if they are in there, need to look at PowerPDF). > >> > >> Yes, that would be correct. > > > > Many thanks, Michael. > > > > Currently I'm searching a pdf access library that could help doing so. > > The only one halfway fitting up to now is this one: > > > > http://itextpdf.com/functionality > > > > Open Source but a license similar to LGPL without exception. Still > > searching ... > > But Java or .Net.
Really? Oops, oversight. I thought there would be a C version. > Depending on your platform you may attempt gnostice products. It's Delphi > code, > but they are quite open and I was told the upcoming rework of their products > will make support for Lazarus possible. I'll have a look at that one. Pure Object Pascal would be very nice. And I found poppler, which is a fork of xpdf compiling into a library. Part of Gnome, so LGPL. Another solution would be to use TProcess and an external tool, there are some "pdf2txt".variants out there. Thanks again, Marc -- Marc Santhoff <m.santh...@web.de> _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
