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I am extracting a pdf into images / swf and text with the help of SWFTools and XPDF.. I am running these in a PDF script.
But now I am trying to go one step further and try to get the TOC from the PDF is it possible to extract this information?
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Xpdf version 3.02 downloaded from the Ubuntu repositories and run on Ubuntu 8.04.3 replaces greek utf-8 characters with blank characters in
the outline pane, i.e. the bookmark pane, and in
the search window. In particular, it is impossible to search for greek words in documents.
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I'm using Xpdf's pdftotext to get the text out of some hebrew pdf files on Ubuntu.
On my local machine this worked fine. I then tried to do it on another machine and the hebrew characters don't show up in the text file. I verified that I have the language package (see below why I think so). Where…
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I'm having trouble determining if it's possible, based on the amount of access I have to my Godaddy server, to install XPDF. Could someone shed some light on this?
Here's the link to XPDF.
And here is info about the GoDaddy server.
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I'm trying to run XPDF on a linux (probably red hat) OVH shared server.
I've managed to have ftp ssh access and put the 64 bits binaries onto a folder.
The problem is : even though the files are there with the right permissions, if I try running it I'm getting a file not found problem (I'm thinking…
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XPDFs pdftotext converts pdf to text and outputs it at command line level. If needed it inserts PageBreaks between the pages as specified in TextOutputDev.cc:
eopLen = uMap->mapUnicode(0x0c, eop, sizeof(eop));
This Unicode symbol is encoding independent, -enc ASCII7 wouldn't change it. I'm currently…
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I have PDF files that are maritime charts, For example this one from the Delaware Bay
http://ocsdata.ncd.noaa.gov/BookletChart/12304_BookletChart_HomeEd.pdf
There is a lot of detailed information in the image. When I show them on a monitor the details are shown. When I put them on the Nook they…
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Hello all!
i have written the following code:
As you can see there is a for loop to go through some values and display them in the generated pdf. The problem is that all the values are being written at the same place.
I have tried to insert a new line but it does not seem to work. Can anyone suggest…
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I have a pdf of a scanned book.
I'm looking for a free software that will perform ocr and then provide an option to save it as pdf/doc.
Is there one?
Thanks.
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Would you like a lightweight PDF reader that integrates nicely with Office and Windows 7? Here we look at the new Nitro PDF Reader, a nice PDF viewer that also lets you create and markup PDF files.
Adobe Reader is the de-facto PDF viewer, but it only lets you view PDFs and not much else. …
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