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PDF Content
I need to find some content in a PDF doc. Anyone have any ideas?
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Re: PDF Content
I found a command line utility at https://pdfbox.apache.org/commandline/#extractText that will extract the text into a text file which I then search for the content I'm looking for. This will work for my needs, is probably not perfect for needs.[email protected] wrote:I need to find some content in a PDF doc. Anyone have any ideas?
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Re: PDF Content
If the PDF contains text that text can be extracted and there are a number of free/open source tools you can use. However, some PDFs are all images, e.g. Documents that have been scanned ... so won't have any extractable text.
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Re: PDF Content
hi,
you can first open de pdf-file with the Adobe reader,
then use the "save as" txt to a file,
then use msched to find your string in this file, you can find all the text.
kind regards,
Djek
you can first open de pdf-file with the Adobe reader,
then use the "save as" txt to a file,
then use msched to find your string in this file, you can find all the text.
kind regards,
Djek
