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convert PDF to txt file in progress

Thu, 2015-07-16 12:01 — carlos.valentini

Good morning everyone forum.
I need a help.
I have to develop a routine in progress, for converting a PDF file to a file in TXT format.
For later import into the system.
How do I Convert this? There is a FREE application that I can run on my progress application?
How do I do that? What parameters do I use?

thanks


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Thu, 2015-07-16 14:16 — rrubio
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Batch mode - pdftotext

I did something like this sometime ago. Your best bet is to run something like www.pdftotext.net in batch mode via os-command. e.g os-command('c:\programs\pdftotext your_filename.pdf'). It does consume a bit memory, so test with one pdf file to start with.

I'll update this response if i manage to find my code. When you google make sure to use "pdf to text batch mode" there are a few options out there.


Thu, 2015-07-16 15:25 — carlos.valentini

Thank you for feedback

Thank you for feedback


Thu, 2015-07-16 16:12 — fvergniaud

Do not expect exact transformation

Carlos,

PDF to text is possible depending on the characteristics of the PDF security model you use, images , etc. of the pdf file

These tools are as OCR, try to do the " best pissible".

The information obtained should be validated in some way before you upload.

I'd done this before and the results are quite unsatisfactory.

Take care.