> Doesn’t that just let you show PDFs? Would it help to parse the contents?
Using the "pdftotext" component of Xpdf you can use a shell command to extract the text from a pdf and place it into for example a text file which you can then parse something like.. _______ put "C:\pdftotext" & " -layout" & " " & pPDF & " " & pTEXTFILE into tcommand PUT shell ( tcommand ) into meh ----------- pPDF is the location and filename of the PDF file you want to process, pTEXTFILE is the location and name of the text file you want to create On Fri, Jul 8, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Colin Holgate <colinholg...@gmail.com> wrote: > Doesn’t that just let you show PDFs? Would it help to parse the contents? > > I’m trying another approach, will report back soon. > > >> On Jul 8, 2016, at 10:58 AM, Peter TB Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com> wrote: >> >> On 08/07/2016 15:11, Jim Hurley wrote: >>> My County is now publishing the election results to the web as a PDF file: >>> >>> >>> https://www.mynevadacounty.com/nc/elections/docs/2016%20Elections/June%207%2c%202016%2c%20Presidential%20Primary/Election%20Results/precinctreport.pdf >>> >>> Is there a way to parse these PDF files? >> >> The XPDF external, which is now available as part of LiveCode Business, is >> probably what you're looking for. >> >> Peter >> >> -- >> Dr Peter Brett <peter.br...@livecode.com> >> LiveCode Technical Project Manager >> >> LiveCode 2016 Conference: https://livecode.com/edinburgh-2016/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
