reading PDF using Python [Q]

William Park parkw at better.net
Tue May 4 22:00:16 EDT 1999


On Tue, May 04, 1999 at 07:05:01PM +0000, Bruno Mattarollo wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> 	I need to read some PDF files and look through them for some keywords I
> have in a list. Is there a python module to read inside a PDF file? If there
> isn't one, is there one in C that you may be aware of?
> 
> 	TIA
> 
> /B
> 
> Bruno Mattarollo <bruno at gaiasur.com.ar>
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Have you looked into Ghostscript's manual?  I'm sure .pdf to .txt
converter is available somewhere related to ghostscript or TeX stuffs.

William




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