Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-22 Thread David
Robert Berman wrote: Dinesh, I have pdftotext version 3.0.0. I have decided to use this to go from PDF to text. It is not the ideal solution, but is is a certainly doable solution. Thank you, Robert Dinesh B Vadhia wrote: The best converter so far is pdftotext from http://www.glyphandcog

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-22 Thread Robert Berman
inesh Message: 4 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:37:39 -0400 From: Robert Berman mailto:berma...@cfl.rr.com>> Subject: Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion To: tutor@python.org <mailto:tutor@python.org> Message-ID: <49ee4ab3.4040...@cfl.rr.com <mailto:49ee4ab3.4040...@cfl.rr.co

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-22 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
best result. hth. dinesh Message: 4 Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 18:37:39 -0400 From: Robert Berman Subject: Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion To: tutor@python.org Message-ID: <49ee4ab3.4040...@cfl.rr.com> Content

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Robert Berman
First, thanks to everyone who contributed to this thread. I have a number of possible solutions and a number of paths to pursue to determine which avenue I should take to resolve this remaining issue. I did try the itools library and while everything installed nicely, most of the tests failed s

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Norman Khine
the itools library from hforge.org has a PDF2TEXT implementation itools.pdf http://www.hforge.org/itools norman On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Dayo Adewunmi wrote: > Emile van Sebille wrote: >> >> Robert Berman wrote: >> >> >>> Have any of you worked with such a library, or do you know of on

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread David
bob gailer wrote: Robert Berman wrote: Hi, I must convert a history file in PDF format that goes from May of 1988 to current date. Readings are taken twice weekly and consist of the date taken mm/dd/yy and the results appearing as a 10 character numeric + special characters sequence. This i

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Martin Walsh
Robert Berman wrote: > Hello Emad, > > I have seriously looked at the documentation associated with pyPDF. This > seems to have the page as its smallest element of work, and what i need > is a line by line process to go from .PDF format to Text. I don't think > pyPDF will meet my needs but thank y

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Dayo Adewunmi
Emile van Sebille wrote: Robert Berman wrote: Have any of you worked with such a library, or do you know of one or two I can download and work with? Hopefully, they have reasonable documentation. My development environment is: Python Linux Ubuntu version 8.10 I've used [r...@fcfw2 /]#

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread johnf
t. Not sure what the answer is! > > Dinesh > > > --- >- > > Message: 5 > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:44:16 -0400 > From: Robert Berman > Subject: Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion > To: "Emad Nawfal ( )" > Cc: tutor@python.org > Message-ID: <49ee05f0

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Dinesh B Vadhia
bert Berman Subject: Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion To: "Emad Nawfal ( )" Cc: tutor@python.org Message-ID: <49ee05f0.3080...@cfl.rr.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1256; format=flowed Hello Emad, I have seriously looked at the documentation associated with

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread johnf
On Tuesday 21 April 2009 10:36:59 am Robert Berman wrote: > Bob, > > Thank you for the quick reply. I am acquainted with that method, and > that will certainly work to do some really serious testing; but, the > data collection is an ongoing process and the users are requesting that > every month t

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Emile van Sebille
Robert Berman wrote: Have any of you worked with such a library, or do you know of one or two I can download and work with? Hopefully, they have reasonable documentation. My development environment is: Python Linux Ubuntu version 8.10 I've used [r...@fcfw2 /]# /usr/bin/pdftotext -v pdft

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Robert Berman
Hello Emad, I have seriously looked at the documentation associated with pyPDF. This seems to have the page as its smallest element of work, and what i need is a line by line process to go from .PDF format to Text. I don't think pyPDF will meet my needs but thank you for bringing it to my atte

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread Robert Berman
Bob, Thank you for the quick reply. I am acquainted with that method, and that will certainly work to do some really serious testing; but, the data collection is an ongoing process and the users are requesting that every month the latest entries (8) are brought into the system. What is rathe

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread عماد نوفل
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, bob gailer wrote: > Robert Berman wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> I must convert a history file in PDF format that goes from May of 1988 to >> current date. Readings are taken twice weekly and consist of the date taken >> mm/dd/yy and the results appearing as a 10 charact

Re: [Tutor] PDF to text conversion

2009-04-21 Thread bob gailer
Robert Berman wrote: Hi, I must convert a history file in PDF format that goes from May of 1988 to current date. Readings are taken twice weekly and consist of the date taken mm/dd/yy and the results appearing as a 10 character numeric + special characters sequence. This is obviously an easy