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Posted by Shelly on 09/19/07 18:48
Any suggestions?
"Shelly" <sheldonlg.news@asap-consult.com> wrote in message
news:13f2f8uqm3eck19@corp.supernews.com...
>I had to do my first investigation regarding PDF files. Surprisingly, I
>found that the only functions in PHP were for creating PDF files.
>
> The potential customer receives order forms from the corporate
> headquarters and they are PDF forms. What we want to do is to extract
> information from these forms and process the data into a database. To do
> this we need to read certain set fields. Nowhere did I find a function to
> be able to read PDF files, let alone extract information from them.
>
> My thoughts, in the absence of this function, would be if there were a way
> to open the file, strip the formatting, and then work on the text stream.
> The key unknown for me in this is how to strip the formatting.
>
> So, do I hear any suggestions for either?:
> (1) How to read predetermined field entries from a PDF file or
> (2) How to convert a PDF into an unformatted text stream
>
> Shelly
>
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