The easiest way is to use a third party tool (like Solid convertor pdf from www.soliddocuments.com) to convert the pdf file into a text file and then handling that file from your vb6 application.
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Browse All Topicsi need to read the contents of pdf file which should be viewed as text file using vb6 . can anyone provide code in vb6 to develop this small application?
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The easiest way is to use a third party tool (like Solid convertor pdf from www.soliddocuments.com) to convert the pdf file into a text file and then handling that file from your vb6 application.
You can use that FREE software:
http://www.pdf995.com/
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by: cupPosted on 2007-11-12 at 10:54:48ID: 20266225
The PDF file format is complex and there are cases where the text in a PDF file is actually pictures. Also, it depends on font encoding. Some files, even though they display properly in Adobe, will just come out as gibberish when you attempt to extract the text.
How complex are your PDF files?