Question

Reading text from PDF file.

Asked by: CSecurity

Hello to all.

I want to read all text from a PDF file. How it's possible?

In fact I want to read PostScript files. But I tried with PostScript and I never found good source code or example or API for reading text in PostScript. Now I learned how to convert PostScript to PDF. And now I want to read all text into PDF file.

How can I do that?
I want to do it in VB6. So please show me some examples which can read PDF file's texts. (or if you think text files in PostScript)

Thanks from now!

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Asked On
2007-09-12 at 18:15:24ID22825156
Tags

pdf

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read

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text

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file

Topics

Ghostscript PDF Software

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Visual Basic Programming

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Adobe Acrobat

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by: raja_ind82Posted on 2007-09-12 at 18:28:26ID: 19881056

Some more code in VB. i hope you have Adobe acrobat 5.0, if not please download the same from the below link

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The Link below will take you to the  adobe site, where
you can download ver. 4 or 5 of the SDK kit that has the
acrobat.tlb in it (free).
Down load the FDF Toolkit.
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/sdks.html

Regards,
M.Raja

 

by: raja_ind82Posted on 2007-09-12 at 18:28:54ID: 19881060

hi,
 i have some code in C/C++ but you can run this in COMMAND prompt.
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html
download the files and check the PDF.

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REgards,
M.Raja

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