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Xombie wrote:milan1612 - will you release your converted source code?

I didn't change much and the main problem was the compilation & linking process
but if you really like to see it: http://rapidshare.com/files/171898788/pdf.cpp.html

And Marco, if Srod doesn't want the money feel free to donate it to Fantaisie Software...

Xombie... a possibility also: Could it be Page as Image?

I just tried milan1612's release.
It doesn't seem to work correctly with non english text, i.e. using characters like éà...

gnozal wrote:I just tried milan1612's release.
It doesn't seem to work correctly with non english text, i.e. using characters like éà...

It's because the original C++ code is ASCII only, no unicode

Well, pdf is not Unicode by default; it essentially uses a 7-bit Ascii encoding. My limited understanding of the pdf format indicates that to support unicode you essentially have to create tables of character codes (to map character codes to font glyphs etc.) and from what I saw of the c-source, the library doesn't seem equipped at all to deal with unicode character sets. Whether the library uses a wide-character string representation for it's variables or not is, I thus think, immaterial.

Found another possibility to extract text from a pdf: xpdf (Direct download)
It is a pack of opensource utilities containing, among others, a pdf2txt commandline
utility which I must say works much better than the C++ library.

@Milan: Could you do it with the better one, please?

...as I wrote, there are problems with this one:
There`s always 240 in the txt-File:

SCHNITT-240
SPALT
LINSEN-240
BRENNWEITE
DUESEN-240
DURCHMESSER
MAX. LASER-240
LEISTUNG
EINSTELL-240
TEILENUMMER:240
TEILE-ID:240

Any ideas, why?

...and txt-File is empty with this pdf (created with PurePdf):
http://www.free-space.at/elke/Marco.pdf

You decide, what happen -> Fantaisie Software will get the Donation and we all have something, what we can use. That`s good!

Any chance for the better pdfextracter? Now it`s a little problematic...

Thank you!

@Marco
I had another look on the tool mentioned above today. I managed to compile it
from source, but before I even try to make a library out of it I have to know
if the utility is good enough for you. Do you mind trying if it works for you?

Of Course! I pm you...

I'm watching this thread with an eagle eye. It would be very useful to my work-work project to extract text from PDF files.

Let me know if y'all need any additional testing or help on compiling and such.

Xombie wrote:I'm watching this thread with an eagle eye. It would be very useful to my work-work project to extract text from PDF files.

Let me know if y'all need any additional testing or help on compiling and such.

The library conversion of the tool mentioned above is finished, Marco and I
are currently testing various PDFs. It's working much better than my first
conversion, if you pm me your e-mail I can send you the library...
The more testers the better the result

It`s brilliant. I tested it with Pdfs created with PurePDF and I testet different pdfs. Milan`s work is really great!! ...no problems.

@Fantaisie Software: ...could take til Monday (i have to reload my electron prepaid visa for PayPal).

Thanks a lot to Milan!

No problem Marco, it was fun to refresh my C++ knowledge. Please don't forget that
the major work on this library wasn't done by me but by the original authors of Xpdf.
For all the others here is the link: http://rapidshare.com/files/172190796/pdf2text.zip

milan1612 wrote:For all the others here is the link: http://rapidshare.com/files/172190796/pdf2text.zip

Anyone got this pdftext.zip file? This link is 404.

MachineCode wrote:Anyone got this pdftext.zip file?

Yes.

And many thanks to Milan!

Regards, Little John