Thank you Rusi and Christian!
So it sounds like I should read the pdf data in as binary:
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import os
pdfPath = '~/Desktop/test.pdf'
colorlistData = ''
with open(os.path.expanduser(pdfPath), 'rb') as f:
for i in f:
if 'XYZ:colorList' in i:
colorlistData = i.split('XYZ:colorList')[1]
break
print(colorlistData)
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This gives me the error:
TypeError: Type str doesn't support the buffer API
I admit I know nothing about binary, except it's ones and zeroes. Is there a
way to read it in as binary, convert it to ascii/unicode, and then somehow
split it by newline characters so that I can pull the appropriate metadata
lines out? For example, XYZ:colorList="DarkBlue,Yellow"
Thanks!
Jay
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> Most of the PDF objects are therefore not encoded. It is, however,
> possible to include a PDF into another PDF and to encode it, but that's
> a rare case. Therefore the metadata can usually be read in text mode.
> However, to correctly find all objects, the xref-table indexes offsets
> into the PDF. It must be treated binary in any case, and that's the
> funny reason for the first 3 characters of the PDF - they must include
> characters with the 8th bit set, such that FTP applications treat it as
> binary.
> Christian
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