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How can I measure the quality of a fax file?

Hi! I'm trying to make a tool that can measure the quality of a fax file, comparing the received one with the one sent. I tried Phase_Correlation software, in order to see if the images are similar... but it's not enough. My purpose is to evaluate if the fax is legible after the transmission. Any ideas? Is there any way of comparing two...

Convert mht\pdf\excel and encoding

I am looking for a .net library that can help me do one of the following: 1. Convert an MHT file to PDF 2. Convert between pdf versions 3. Change a pdf file encoding 4. Convert an MHT to an Excel file 5. Convert a MIME version of excel (an Excel file that is readable via notepad) to a binary Excel file 6. Convert between Excel version ...

Updating backend database from cooked XML/PDF input: Which is the best tool/approach?

We have to automate database updation couple of times a month. My current use case is as follows. Currently we manually diff the input data with the previous month's input. If it is XML we use MS xmldiff. If it is Pdf , it is fully done through manual verificaton :-( . Once the changes are found, we update the database through a fo...

Slow PDF upload for Confluence

We run a site that we host that uses the Atlassian Confluence. The site works great and is being used now. But there is one thing. It seems like when pdf and gifs are uploaded the upload speed will be slower. But the smaller files will upload fine. Has anyone else having an issue with uploading pdf's into confluence? I am trying to...

Way of jumping to a page in a local pdf?

My question is similar to "How can I programmaticly open a pdf at a certain point?", but the PDF is local, not on a web server. I need a way to jump to a given page in a PDF that is on the users computer, that works across versions of Acrobat (or using an alternative PDF viewer like Foxit Reader). The PDF is going to be called from a Ja...

PDF document manipulation

I have several PDFs with the following properties: Each PDF contains a variable number of "documents" with differing number of pages. Each page in a "document" has text such as "Page 3 of 26". I want to be able to automatically identify the first and last page of each "document" within a PDF (Note: this is not the same as the first an...

Error including image in Latex

I am getting the following error while compiling my Latex File : ! LaTeX Error: Cannot determine size of graphic in tree.jpg (no BoundingBox). Why do I get this error ? What has this to do with an .eps file ? Infact, I could compile it fine with MacTex on my machine. But when I submit it online to a scientific journal for publication,...

Converting HTML to PDF using PHP?

Is it possible to convert a HTML page to PDF using PHP, and if so, how can it be done? Specifically, the page is an invoice generated dynamically. So I would like it loaded using: http://site.com/invoices/3333 And the HTML output would have to be converted to PDF. Any good libraries that do this will be fine. ...

Why would PDF::FromHTML behave differently when called from my web app?

I'm using PDF::FromHTML to generate a PDF from HTML(as the name of the module would imply) :) I'm able to run it from the command line fine and receive my expected output - however when I use the exact same code in my web app, the output doesn't look correct at all - text is appearing in the wrong places and not all of it is appearing. ...

In a firefox extension how to save a copy of a pdf opened in the browser window

I have a Firefox extension and in some cases when a user navigates to a PDF I'd like to save a copy of the file. This is easy when the PDF is downloaded (as I can use nsIObserverService to get the file), but when the PDF is opened in the browser using the Adobe Reader plugin I can't see how to get the file without downloading it again. A...

Uploading files in Rails

I want to make a section in my site where visitors can upload files (pdfs). How can this be done? Also, after the pdf is uploaded, I need a link to that file. Rather than using a boring text link, I was thinking of having a thumbnail graphic of the first page of the pdf. Is there a tool out there that does this? ...

Generating PDF files with Javascript

I'm trying to convert XML data into PDF files from a web page and I was hoping I could do this entirely within Javascript. I need to be able to draw text, images and simple shapes. I would love to be able to do this entirely in the browser. ...

How do I get text orientation of a text string in a PDF page using CAM::PDF?

I am using CAM::PDF and I want to find out how to get the orientation of a text string. Thanks ...

Web served image in PDF?

Does PDF and/or Adobe Reader support including an image by URL so that you can insert a dynamic images from a web server into a document? ...

How to create a bulleted list in ReportLab

How can I create a bulleted list in ReportLab? The documentation is frustratingly vague. I am trying: text = ur ''' <para bulletText="&bull;"> item 1 </para> <para bulletText="&bull;"> item 2 </para> ''' Story.append(Paragraph(text,TEXT_STYLE)) But I keep getting errors like list index out of range. It seems that I can't put more than...

open specific page of pdf through xml

I am trying to open a pdf through xml. It working fine. Here is the xml tag for that : <indexdata><key name="analyst"> <topic name="analyst" url="folderName/pdfDocs/analyst.pdf"/> </key></indexdata> Its working well. But now I want to open the specific page (say, page no. 6) of this "analist.pdf" using the xml. Can anyone help me to...

How do I gather output from an external command in a Perl script?

Hi, I have a a tool named TET.EXE, product of the PDFlib family, it is used to extract the co-ordinates of a particular text. Using those coordinates in the Perl script we can extract the required text. This is a manual process to run the .EXE and then give the co-ordinates to Perl, so could any one suggest me to make this entire proces...

How can you create one file from many png files in terminal?

Example of data 06-7-1-B.png 06-7-2-B.png 07-3-1-B.png 07-3-2-B.png 06-6-1-P.png 06-6-2-P.png 07-12-1-P.png 07-12-2-P.png 07-6-1-P.png 07-6-2-P.png 07-7-1-P.png 07-7-2-P.png 08-2-1-P.png 08-2-2-P.png 08-2-3-P.png 08-7-1-P.png 08-7-2-P.png 08-7-3-P.png 08-7-4-P.png 08-9-1-P.png 08-9-2-P.png I want to join the files together as follows....

pdf paragraph or blocks of text positions

I need to find the rectangles that make up the paragraphs and/or blocks of text in a PDF page. I have looked at iTextSharp and DataLogics. The best I have been able to do is find an individual words. However, I need to know if the words are in the same block of text. I am using C#. Anybody have any ideas? ...

Building PDF Files with C#

Does anyone have experience using the following libraries (or others) to build PDF files in C#? Which have you found to be the easiest and most straightforward? What I would like to do is push some HTML into a library and have it spit out a PDF. Any help would be appreciated. iTextSharp QuickPDF Library DynamicPDF TallPDF ExpertPDF ABC...