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data from pdf ?
Posted: Thu Mar 16, 2017 06:29 PM

Ciao

Any help to get/retrive data from PDF Editable ?

Tks

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Re: data from pdf ?
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 09:32 AM

You can use pdftotext.exe to extract the document content, then use regular string functions to get what you want.

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Carlos Mora
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Re: data from pdf ?
Posted: Fri Mar 17, 2017 12:03 PM

Is pdftotext.exe Free ?

Any link for download ?

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Re: data from pdf ?
Posted: Sat Mar 18, 2017 09:13 AM

http://foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html

the first result when searching 'pdftotext.exe' in Google. XPdf is the full package, and includes the pdf-utils that includes 'pdftotext.exe'.

Saludos
Carlos Mora
http://harbouradvisor.blogspot.com/
StackOverflow http://stackoverflow.com/users/549761/carlos-mora
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance"
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Re: data from pdf ?
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 08:45 AM

thanks a lot !!

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