Re: Parsing PDF files

Thanks Bob, The article looks like it will be relevant to what I am doing. Regards, Paul ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bob Kaehms" <bkaehms@kaehms.com> To: <php-windows@lists.php.net> 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-windows-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-windows-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >