How to get image and text from PDF file

[Dileep_NR]

Hi All,

How to read images and text from pdf file?

[Daverms]

Hi Dileep,

Though I am not 100% sure, I hope this can be acheived using "Adobe LiveCycle". Try refering the documentation.

[Dileep_NR]

hi,

any thing in cf8?

[Daverms]

Hi Dileep,

Unfortunately in CF8 you may not able to perform those actions.

One side note though, In the upcoming "ColdFusion 9" (Centaur), <cfpdf> tag has been enhanced to perform operations like extracting data and images from a PDF document.

HTH

[tooMuchTrouble]

text should be doable, not so sure about images:

http://blog.cutterscrossing.com/index.cfm/2007/12/3/CF8-PDF-Manipulation-Pulling-Text-Out

http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/index.cfm/2007/7/24/ColdFusion-8-Working-with-PDFs-Part-7

there are also a few java libs (fairly easy to integrate w/cf) around that a

google search should turn up.

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PaulH wrote:

there are also a few java libs (fairly easy to integrate w/cf) around that a

google search should turn up.

In that area, you might try jPedal as it is part of CF8 + CF9.  IIRC, there was an example on the jPedal site about extracting images that may be worth a look.

[tooMuchTrouble]

thanks, i never suspected jPedal came w/cf. got any cf examples?

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I have only worked with it from the java side of things.  But I will see if I can whip something up.  (If that evil place where they keep my paycheck does not interfere 😉

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Well that was disappointing.  I looked over the CF8 version and it seems signifigantly different than even the LGPL version.  Not at all what I was expecting.  Most of the key helper functions and/or classes are either private or not available at all.  So you would still have to load a different version .. 😕