From: Hannes Wyss <hannes.wyss@...>
Date: 2006-11-07T19:11:41+09:00
Subject: Re: extract info from pdf doc

ivor

On 11/7/06, Ivor <ivor@rails.co.za> wrote:
> certain fields in the database record that is created for each upload to
> be populated from information in the pdf. Does a library that can do
> this exist, and if so, can you please point me in its general direction.

rpdf2txt (1) can extract text from PDF-files. It is not very well
documented (i.e.: not at all), but if you have any questions about
usage, I can help you get going.

hth
Hannes

1) http://download.ywesee.com/rpdf2txt/rpdf2txt-1.0.6.tar.bz2