Re: PDF to Text

Jay Blanchard wrote:

[snip]

I am trying to find a way for a program to search through the text on

a

PDF. My first thought was to use pdftotext, but the PDFs generated by

our

commercial scanner/copier/printer machine do not seem to work with pdftotext... it just outputs two CRLFs. I've been looking around on

the

net for something similar that might work. Anyone know of something like that? Thanks, -- Ray Hauge

Things I forgot to post: It is a PHP script. I was planning on using shell_exec() to call the program and read the output from stdout. [/snip] Sounds like the PDF's are images and therefore will not be readable by anything, save for eyeballs. I have run into this quite a bit. The scanner scans the doc via a TWAIN driver, which then converts the info into an image of that which was scanned. It would be like trying to read text programmatically from a JPEG.....not really possible.

http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ will do it.