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I basically run our pdfs through a pdf 2 txt converter and extract the
data from the text files. It is pretty simple.
On 3/3/2011 6:21 AM, Mike Blezien wrote:
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "shawn wilson" <ag4ve.us [at] gmail.com>
> Cc: "Perl List" <beginners [at] perl.org>
> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 6:04 AM
> Subject: Re: Extracting Data from PDF files
>
>
>> On Mar 3, 2011 6:35 AM, "Mike Blezien" <mickalo [at] frontiernet.net> wrote:
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "shawn wilson" <ag4ve.us [at] gmail.com>
>>> Cc: "Perl List" <beginners [at] perl.org>
>>> Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2011 5:22 AM
>>> Subject: Re: Extracting Data from PDF files
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> On Mar 3, 2011 6:07 AM, "Mike Blezien" <mickalo [at] frontiernet.net>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>>
>>>>> I posted a question earlier about creating a PDF file from a PDF form
>>>>
>>>> submission which we now have working. We are able to create the PDF
>>>> file
>> to
>>>> be attached to an email.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The issue I'm having now is the ability to extract some specific data
>> from
>>>>
>>>> these PDF file created. We need to extract a couple of form field
>>>> values
>>>> from the PDF file created. I've been reviewing the various PDF modules
>> and
>>>> haven't been able to figure it out. The modules I've looking at are
>>>> PDF::API2::Simple and PDF::FDF::Simple. These seem to just create/edit
>> the
>>>> PDF files, but I need to extract specific data from the created PDF
>>>> file.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Is there another way to do this with these modules or some other
>>>>> method
>> ?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> Maybe I'm missing something but why don't you just dump all of the
>>>> form
>> data
>>>> into a db and then you can create as many pdf as you like? I mean,
>>>> I've
>> used
>>>> a pdf scraping module (you can even do ocr with one) but it isn't fun
>>>> because the data is generally not nicely formatted for this. This
>> probably
>>>> isn't the case for you but who cares because you have access to the
>>>> pre-processed data.
>>>
>>>
>>> Shawn,
>>>
>>> you mean dump it into a database(db) ? the data is mostly all binary so
>> not sure how you'd "scrape" it to extract the data but I'm not real
>> fimilar
>> with this approach :)
>>>
>> You said your data was coming from pdf form, right? I've never done
>> this per
>> se, however IIRC, the data is posted to a db, web cgi, or a text
>> file. If
>> this is the case, why not get the text from the db - its plain text
>> at that
>> point, no?
>
> I wish it was that simple. All the data passed is basically all binary
> from the PDF form, haven't be able to figure out how to extract the
> actual specific form field data in the file.
>
> Mike
>
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