Suggestion for converting PDF files to HTML/txt files

brad byte8bits at gmail.com
Tue Aug 12 10:03:13 EDT 2008


alex23 wrote:
> On Aug 12, 11:13 pm, brad <byte8b... at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Very neat program. Would be cool if it could easily integrate into other
>> py apps instead of being a standalone CLI tool.
> 
> Perhaps, but I think you could get a long way using os.system().

Yes, that is possible, but there's a lot of overhead when doing that... 
unfortunately. Also, if using os.system() is the answer, then one could 
just use the xpdf pdftotext program. A native Python solution that could 
be called from other PY apps naturally, would be awesome.



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