i want to create a pdf page where i want to copy some text and paste in other document. i have gone through many pdf examples but i havent seen any app with selecting text in pdf.so i want to know whether it is possible or do i need to try with some other formats other than pdf
For this you need CGPDF class for this purpose here is link this might help you
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A very quick question but I am at wits end trying to find it so I hope someone might have crossed this path. I have thousands of PDF's and need to know which of them are fillable forms or scanned images. I know I have seen a field that shows form : Acroform or something to that effect. Might this be in the info dictionary or do I need to go the XMP route? Is this the same location I might be able to tell if a PDF was a scanned image or page (I recognize that might have to be split into a separate question.
The goal is to loop through a series of pdfs and extract that data for a table.
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I have searched for an answer to this question but perhaps I am searching with the incorrect terminology as I have found nothing so far. Any help would be great!
I would like to extract the positions of text fields, check boxes, radio buttons, list boxes, etc. from an Adobe PDF file. Is there a way to do this? Is there a way to do this with Python?
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Does this post help? It runs through extracting text from a pdf and has a line of code commented out which will show the coordinates of text. Finding and extracting specific text from URL PDF files, without downloading or writing (solution)
In reading journal articles for school, I often come across pdfs where I cannot select text, which makes taking notes very inconvenient. The funny thing is, the pdf does not appear to be scanned, and the security permissions allow for copying, but the text does not enable me to do so. How can I convert this pdf into a pdf where I can select the text, preferably without having to convert each page individually, as there are typically 20 pages per pdf.
I've tried some online converters, but I can't seem to find one that can 'digitize' the text while maintaining the file in a pdf format.
Any suggestions? Any background information to explain this helps as well.
Thanks much.
Try to "print" the original pdf file into a new pdf archive by using "PDF Creator" or a similar application. In the new file you should be able to select the text.
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.