Re: PDF reader

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  • Posted by Spock Sep 29, 2015
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gwalters said...

Do we have somewhere a PDF reader?. I would like to be able to read a PDF version of a simple text printout. It happens that I cannot save the printout as a simple txt file but only a pdf file. I don't seem to see anything in the archives that could do that. Suggestions would be appreciated.

I use pdftotext for exactly this sort of task. In my office it gets a heavy workout - up to 1000 pdfs processed each day. When the txt is extracted I run a regular expressions library (my own, of course) over the data to pull out what I need. I used to try and work out coordinates of certain fields etc.. but in the end I found a context based approach much better.

EDIT: Whoa! Didn't see the date: 2013

Spock

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