Fw: PDF library for reading PDF files
Andreas Lobinger
andreas.lobinger at netsurf.de
Mon Jan 19 11:02:03 EST 2004
Aloha,
> Peter Galfi schrieb:
> I am looking for a library in Python that would read PDF files and I
> could extract information from the PDF with it. I have searched with
> google, but only found libraries that can be used to write PDF files.
> Any ideas?
Use file, split, zlib and a broad knowledge of the PDF-spec...
Accessing certain objects in the .pdf is not that complicated if
you f.e. try to read the /Info dictionary. Getting text from
actual page content could be very complicated.
Can you explain your 'information' further?
Wishing a happy day
LOBI
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