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 setup
for a very small database application with the date as the key, the
result string as the data.
My problem is converting the PDF file into a text file which I can
then read and process. I do not see any free python libraries having
this capacity. I did see a PDFPILOT program for Windows but this
application is being developed on Linux and should also run on
Windows; so I do not want to incorporate a Windows only application.
I do not think i am breaking any new frontiers with this application.
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.
If this is a one-time conversion just use the save as text feature of
adobe reader.
My development environment is:
Python
Linux
Ubuntu version 8.10
Thanks for any help you might be able to offer.
Robert Berman
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