Re: PDF reader
- Posted by mattlewis (admin) Nov 25, 2013
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The words you have to real think about in the questioner's request are "so I can strip out information needed". That is call extraction from a PDF file. Try it under Euphoria - you will not do it programatically in one month.\
It really depends on the PDF files you're dealing with. Some are extremely easy to deal with. Others can be extremely complex. I once wrote some code to convert some PDF files (it was years ago, and I don't know what happened to the code). They weren't too terrible, though I had to be flexible with the coordinates in order to get everything put together correctly. It was a bunch of maintenance information and schedules for submarines, so the documents had important fields all over the place.
Most of the work was figuring out where everything was in the documents. But if you have simpler documents to deal with, it might be a lot easier. The spec is open, so you should be able to be reading something from PDFs in a day or less. Again, without knowing the details of your source material, a month might not be a bad estimate, but it could also be a lot quicker than that.
Matt
