searching pdf files for certain info

[Diez B. Roggisch]

rbt wrote:

> Not really a Python question... but here goes: Is there a way to read
> the content of a PDF file and decode it with Python? I'd like to read
> PDF's, decode them, and then search the data for certain strings.

There is a commercial tool pdflib availabla, that might help. It has  a free
evaluation version, and python bindings.

If it's only about text, maybe pdf2text helps.
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Regards,

Diez B. Roggisch