Thanks Bob,
The article looks like it will be relevant to what I am doing.
Regards,
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Kaehms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [PHP-WIN] Parsing PDF files
> We did a pretty nice article on the PDF document format while I was at
> Web Techniques. You might want to look at the article by Nassib Nassar:
> http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1998/10/nassar/
>
>
>
> On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, Alain Samoun wrote:
>
> > I think that you can extract pretty easily the header, like: Subject,
> > Creator, Author etc... But extracting values in a table may not that be
so
> > easy as the objects creation in the file are dependent on the file
history
> > and in addition the pdf file may be in a binary form.
> > Alain
> >
> > On Fri, Aug 31, 2001 at 12:16:38PM -0300, Paul Meagher wrote:
> > > Wondering if anyone has tried to parse out a table of information
from a
> > > PDF file?
> > >
> > > Is it a matter of opening the file, looping through its contents
> > > line-by-line looking for tags that demarcate table cell boundaries
and
> > > extracting the relevant cell values?
> > >
> > > I figured if Google can index PDF content it must be possible to pull
the
> > > content out something like one would an HTML file.
> > >
> > > Mostly wondering how much work might be involved and if there are any
> > > tricks that I should be aware of before I begin...
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Paul
> > >
> > >
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