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 attention.
Thanks,
Robert Berman
Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل) wrote:
On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, bob gailer <bgai...@gmail.com
<mailto:bgai...@gmail.com>> 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
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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I tried pyPdf once, just for fun, and it was nice:
http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
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