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Topic: OpenOffice PDF-files

Posted By: Ingo
Subject: OpenOffice PDF-files
Date Posted: 13 Jul 06 at 4:04AM

Hi!

From Ulrich i've got the insight that QuickPDF can't extract textcontent from new OpenOffice-PDFs...
My thoughts in this case: Working from zero on in the Adobe specs or to examine other sources of components which can extract textcontent from OpenOffice-PDFs, too. Is here anybody who can say if iText is the component i mean?

Best regards,
Ingo

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Posted By: chicks
Date Posted: 13 Jul 06 at 12:09PM

No, iText can't extract text.

The best open-source tool is pdftohtml (which can also extract in XML format). It's based on pdftotext, which is one of the commandline tools available in the xpdf distro.

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/
http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/

Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 13 Jul 06 at 5:41PM

Thanks a lot!
I'll try both components... perhaps there's something we can use in quickpdf.

Best regards,
Ingo