Textextraction CrystalReports-PDF

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   Hi!

I've problems extracting textcontent from a pdf (specs 1.2) made by crystal reports. Although there's a plenty of table data in the doc i can extract only few Characters (only few big letters (AA... E... FF ... and mostly blanks ;-)

Has anybody of you made the same experiences? What can be done?

Best regards,
Ingo

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Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: Textextraction CrystalReports-PDF Posted: 23 Jan 07 at 7:16AM
	Hi! I've problems extracting textcontent from a pdf (specs 1.2) made by crystal reports. Although there's a plenty of table data in the doc i can extract only few Characters (only few big letters (AA... E... FF ... and mostly blanks ;-) Has anybody of you made the same experiences? What can be done? Best regards, Ingo

marian_pascalau Members Profile Find Members Posts Debenu Quick PDF Library Expert Joined: 28 Mar 06 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 278	Post Options Post Reply Quote marian_pascalau Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 23 Jan 07 at 7:37AM
	Ingo, send a sample PDF to me. I have writen a small pdf viewer which I can test against your PDF files. If it works nice I will send you my program and show you how it works.

ixm7 Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 13 Jan 06 Status: Offline Points: 68	Post Options Post Reply Quote ixm7 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jan 07 at 11:12PM
	Hi Ingo, If this is Crystal XI, I ran into the same issue and the conclusion was that it simply has a bad PDF export. Crystal 8.5, 9, or 10 should be fine. Cheers, - Ido

ixm7 Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 13 Jan 06 Status: Offline Points: 68	Post Options Post Reply Quote ixm7 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 27 Jan 07 at 11:25PM
	Ingo, because I'm frustrated by limitations in Crystal's pdf export (what you bumped into is not the only issue I've seen), I'm considering adding my own export mode to pdf in my Crystal-related software. I'm considering CutePDF $500 Custom PDF Writer with programmatic access. However, it has a system requirement of: "GNU Ghostscript or other PS2PDF interpreter," which leaves an obvious headache if I want to have a worry-free deployment of my application to user's machines. Do you have any advice on the matter? Are you aware of any other tool that would be a good choice for programmatic "printing" of a Crystal report to a PDF file? Cheers, - Ido

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jan 07 at 8:23AM
	Hi Ido! I've no special advice but ... Perhaps here you#ll find something: http://www.quickpdf.org/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=609 Best regards, Ingo

ixm7 Members Profile Find Members Posts Senior Member Joined: 13 Jan 06 Status: Offline Points: 68	Post Options Post Reply Quote ixm7 Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 28 Jan 07 at 8:35AM
	Hi Ingo, See my earlier message replying to your question about text extraction. Looks like you missed it. Do you indeed use Crystal XI to do the export? Cheers, - Ido

Ingo Members Profile Find Members Posts Moderator Group Joined: 29 Oct 05 Status: Offline Points: 3524	Post Options Post Reply Quote Ingo Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 29 Jan 07 at 1:35AM
	Hi Ido! I've read your reply. Thanks. I don't know which version of Crystal Reports was used 'cause i've got only the pdf-document and in the meta data there's only "Crystal reports". Best regards, Ingo