[Tutor] PDF to text conversion

[Emad Nawfal (عماد نوفل)]

On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:54 PM, bob gailer <bgailer at gmail.com> wrote:

> Robert Berman wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I must convert a history file in PDF format that goes from May of 1988 to
>> current date.  Readings are taken twice weekly and consist of the date taken
>> mm/dd/yy and the results appearing as a 10 character numeric + special
>> characters sequence. This is obviously an easy setup for a very small
>> database  application with the date as the key, the result string as the
>> data.
>>
>> My problem is converting the PDF file into a text file which I can then
>> read and process. I do not see any free python libraries having this
>> capacity. I did see a PDFPILOT program for Windows but this application is
>> being developed on Linux and should also run on Windows; so I do not want to
>> incorporate a Windows only application.
>>
>> I do not think i am breaking any new frontiers with this application. Have
>> any of you worked with such a library, or do you know of one or two I can
>> download and work with? Hopefully, they have reasonable documentation.
>>
>
> If this is a one-time conversion just use the save as text feature of adobe
> reader.
>
>
>> My development environment is:
>>
>> Python
>> Linux
>> Ubuntu version 8.10
>>
>>
>> Thanks for any help  you might be able to offer.
>>
>>
>> Robert Berman
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I tried pyPdf once, just for fun, and it was nice:
http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
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Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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