[TriLUG] To The Oracle:

[Robert Dale]

In Java, there's iText and PDFBox.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/itext/

http://pdfbox.apache.org/

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 9:42 PM, Brian McCullough <bdmc at buadh-brath.com> wrote:
> Greetings, all.
>
> Once again, I have what I hope is an interesting question that some or
> many of you, can help with.
>
>
> Last fall, I learned about creating PDFs from PHP code, now I need to go
> the other way, and extract data from PDFs.
>
> I have found more than one method in PHP for reading PDFs, but,
> unfortunately, even the newest methods don't seem to be able to deal
> with "modern" PDFs, version 1.4.
>
> Here, instead of text with other markup, as we see in older PDFs, there
> seem to be blocks of binary code intermixed with markup.
>
>
> Does anybody have any suggestions for dealing with this new version of
> PDF?
>
> Although I would like to do this in PHP, I will take other languages if
> necessary.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
> Brian
>
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Robert Dale