PDF help needed

#1

Groovy guys and gals,

I am working with one of my customers on an electronic transfer of data from
one of their customers. Unfortunately, their customer can only supply the
documents in a PDF format. We are using D3/Linux. Please share with me any
experiences and suggestions you may have on how to get the data we need out
of a PDF. We are open to paying consulting fees as need be.

Thanks (in advance),
Jeff

--
Jeffrey Kaufman
Key Data Systems Group
www.keydata.us
1111 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
Berkeley, CA 94708
510-486-9015 office
510-486-9016 fax
559-432-3832 cell

#2

Jeffrey Kaufman wrote:

Quote:

Groovy guys and gals,

I am working with one of my customers on an electronic transfer of
data from one of their customers. Unfortunately, their customer can
only supply the documents in a PDF format. We are using D3/Linux.
Please share with me any experiences and suggestions you may have on
how to get the data we need out of a PDF. We are open to paying
consulting fees as need be.

Thanks (in advance),
Jeff

These "data that we need," are they form fields?
If so, you can use JavaScript to extract their
contents, I believe.

--
frosty

#3

Yes, data within a form.
Jeff

"frosty" <frostyj (AT) bogus (DOT) tld> wrote

Quote:

Jeffrey Kaufman wrote:
Groovy guys and gals,

I am working with one of my customers on an electronic transfer of
data from one of their customers. Unfortunately, their customer can
only supply the documents in a PDF format. We are using D3/Linux.
Please share with me any experiences and suggestions you may have on
how to get the data we need out of a PDF. We are open to paying
consulting fees as need be.

Thanks (in advance),
Jeff

These "data that we need," are they form fields?
If so, you can use JavaScript to extract their
contents, I believe.

--
frosty

#4

Thanks, Glen. We'll give that a try.
Jeff

"Glen B" <no$pamwebmaster@no$pamforallspec.com> wrote

Quote:

Take a look at Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility. It should convert
unprotected PDFs to ASCII for you. You'll have to parse the data and
extract
what you need. The output format isn't perfect, though, so you may have to
do some manual data tweaking if you want to import tables of data.

Glen

"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote in message
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Groovy guys and gals,

I am working with one of my customers on an electronic transfer of data
from
one of their customers. Unfortunately, their customer can only supply
the
documents in a PDF format. We are using D3/Linux. Please share with me
any
experiences and suggestions you may have on how to get the data we need
out
of a PDF. We are open to paying consulting fees as need be.

Thanks (in advance),
Jeff

--
Jeffrey Kaufman
Key Data Systems Group
www.keydata.us
1111 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
Berkeley, CA 94708
510-486-9015 office
510-486-9016 fax
559-432-3832 cell

#5

Almost in any Linux boxes there are a utlity named :

PDF2TXT.

It converts all text in a PDF to TXT (not protected PDF). The you can
read it from D3 easily.

joseba

Jeffrey Kaufman ha escrito:

Quote:

Thanks, Glen. We'll give that a try.
Jeff

"Glen B" <no$pamwebmaster@no$pamforallspec.com> wrote in message
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Take a look at Ghostscript's ps2ascii utility. It should convert
unprotected PDFs to ASCII for you. You'll have to parse the data and
extract
what you need. The output format isn't perfect, though, so you may have to
do some manual data tweaking if you want to import tables of data.

Glen

"Jeffrey Kaufman" <jkaufman (AT) keydata (DOT) us> wrote in message
news:WQfpg.111390$H71.12162 (AT) newssvr13 (DOT) news.prodigy.com...
Groovy guys and gals,

I am working with one of my customers on an electronic transfer of data
from
one of their customers. Unfortunately, their customer can only supply
the
documents in a PDF format. We are using D3/Linux. Please share with me
any
experiences and suggestions you may have on how to get the data we need
out
of a PDF. We are open to paying consulting fees as need be.

Thanks (in advance),
Jeff

--
Jeffrey Kaufman
Key Data Systems Group
www.keydata.us
1111 Grizzly Peak Blvd.
Berkeley, CA 94708
510-486-9015 office
510-486-9016 fax
559-432-3832 cell

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