Can I create simple pdf file in x++? In this pdf I would like to have for example select from one table or simple static text.
MorphX reports can be saved to PDF by using the proper print settings beforehand.
SSRS reports can do this also using similar tricks.
Another way is to generate RTF, then let Word do the PDF creation. Silly, but maybe the PDF is smaller or better looking.
It is possible, but not simple, to generate PDF directly by using third party .Net components.
Some weeks ago, I used the Evo HTML to PDF library http://www.evopdf.com/ to convert simple HTML templates to PDF and it worked great. It can convert plain text as well, so maybe it could be useful for you.
Natively, AX hasn't anything to create PDF files.
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I have a PDF (created from Word) for a game I wrote for an old 8-bit computer, and I'd like to embed the code for that game (binary, less than 32k) into that PDF. This way, my emulator can load the program by reading the PDF, and the two can be stored and shared in one file.
You could call this a form of steganography.
I know a PDF has a tree structure and uses ASCII to define its components; is there a way to add inert, "orphan" elements that won't cause problems for PDF readers? I think that would be the easiest way to do it. But I'm not sure how to do it.
The simplest solution would be to use a document attachment or a file attachment annotation.
Most PDF tools that are available support these features as they are pretty basic.
I am trying to make an iOS app which would extract plain text from a pdf file and display it in a UITextView. Its simply not a pdf reader to view a pdf file but i would later wish to perform certain operations on that text.
I have already googled a lot but still not able to get an exact solution.
i already tried using https://github.com/zachron/pdfiphone
but the files are using ARMV6 architecture which seems obsolete with xcode 4.5
And if anyone can suggest some exact and non-confusing code using Quartz-2d framework of iOS then it would be great.
Here is An Sample code to Extract text from PDF Hope this Might Help You.
https://github.com/zachron/pdfiphone
This is a library to get the text out of a PDF for the iPhone.
Another Demo is there Which uses OCR technology find the link below
https://github.com/nolanbrown/Tesseract-iPhone-Demo
Also Check this page of the Quartz 2D Programming Guide, it covers everything you need to open and parse a PDF file in iOS. Note that it is not a simple task, since there's no method to extract the full text in one line. You have to work with the data as an input stream, using a CGPDFScanner
Two Other Libraries
https://github.com/KurtCode/PDFKitten/
https://github.com/mobfarm/FastPdfKit
This question comes up all the time. It is VERY hard to extract text from PDF in general. The PDF specification is not designed with text extraction in mind. There are many libraries that try to do the job, essentially by reconstructing the text from the geometric placement of the individual glyphs. These libraries have varying degrees of success, but will all fail on certain PDF documents. In fact, some PDF documents have Glyphs but no way to associate the glyph with a character. For these documents it is simply not possible to extract text, short of using some kind of OCR approach.
PDF is designed as a read-only format that is portable in the sense that a PDF document will be rendered identically on any platform. That is what it is best at, and what it should be used for.
If text is to be edited, do not use PDF.
Here (Extracting text from pdf using objective-c), I found an answer to your question and it works. But not so fine as i need it :(
it can extract only ascii
it return me only one paragraph
Good luck.
I have a lengthy PDF time tracking document that was printed out and used in a paper process to schedule appointments. Now this paper process is being converted to an online application and this application needs to generate reports in the same format as the PDF document (this time programatically inserting values into rows instead of having someone write them on the piece of paper).
My question is this, is possible to somehow import the layout of that PDF document into Telerik reporter's designer? Otherwise, is there some sort of an intermediary tool that I can use to make the layout more exportable?
Just to clarify, I am not trying to save my reports as PDF but trying to use a given PDF's layout to create a similar looking report in Telerik.
Any tips would be very welcome.
Thank you very much!
There are numerous tools for extracting text or images from pdf files, but I am pretty sure nothing exists to extract the layout of a pdf. The pdf format is just text and symbols with coordinates. There is no layout to extract.
right now i am working on one ipad application where i am giving facility of opening the pdf file and also to customize it,now i want to add one functionality like i want to convert that pdf file in .doc format.
I researched but did not get any way around. Can anybody help me out?
Thanking you in advance.
I wrote an article on PDF to text conversion issues. If you look at some of the existing PDF to Word conversion tools (ie BCL) you will see what is realistically possible with a lot of work.
It’s not possible to convert a generic PDF back into a text format. I guess you could render the PDF into images and create a DOC from those, but that doesn’t sound very useful.
Is there a script that anyone can suggest that would allow me to create a HTML or PHP web based form to collect data and save that data. the call the data to be populated in a fillable pdf?
If you have an existing PDF that you want to populate, and that PDF just has text fields (no checkboxes or radio buttons) then CAM::PDF may be able to help you. You can use it as a Perl library directly, or use its command-line interface. CAM::PDF is not useful for generating PDFs from scratch, however. Furthermore, if you have embedded fonts, then you need to ensure that all of the characters you plan to insert are represented in the embedded font.
Use a normal web page to get the data. If not sure how to do it, look for "php forms" on google, there are plenty of tutorials.
Then use a php pdf generator, like this one, to create the PDF file. If you look hard enough, you will probably find a pdf generator that will let you use a template with placeholders where the entered data should be.