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[Delphi] extract text from word or pdf based on format (font name and size)

Hello, I need to parse large text (about 1000 pages of word or pdf document)and place some of the text inside this document into database fields I found that the only thing I can distinguish the text I want to extract is the format , it is always "Helvetica-Condensed" size 12 can I do that ? I know how to use the string functions but ...

Reading PDF file to get tabular data in structured format,

I have to read a pdf file which contains a table with several columns. Using iTextSharp I am able to read the file but I get bunch of non-formatted text. I am not able to structure the data so that I can insert into a database. Any suggestions? ...

iTextSharp diacritics

Hi, I am trying to typeset a pdf with iTextSharp library, but I cannot find anywhere how to handle diacritics. Since I found tables of contents of two books about iTextSharp where diacritics has a section, I suppose it is doable. So the question is How to typeset "ř" ? In addition, is there some guide or link about this problem? Than...

Error when generating pdf using script in R

I'm using R to loop through the columns of a data frame and make a graph of the resulting analysis. I don't get any errors when the script runs, but it generates a pdf that cannot be opened. If I run the content of the script, it works fine. I wondered if there is a problem with how quickly it is looping through, so I tried to force it ...

How to Grab PDF image elements using c#

Hi everyone. I wanted to know how to grab an image element in a PDF file using c#. I know how to add the elements to a PDF file I just need to know how to access the image elements. I'm also using iTextSharp. ...

How to bring up PDF embedded in windows.forms.webbrowser control in VISTA.

Webbrowser1.Navigate("http://mysite.com/test.pdf") XP WEBBROWSER-CONTROL: brings up PDF embedded in webbrowser control, as desired. XP IE7: Behaves the same if you manually navigate to URL, as desired. VISTA WEBBROWSER-CONTROL: brings up PDF by separately launching Acrobat, won't embed in webbrowser control. Not desired. Vista IE7...

Signing a PDF file

I use iTextSharp to sign a PDF file. But Adobe Reader cannot verify my signature. I use SHA-2 test certificate (I tried also SHA-1) generated by certification authority. I have installed root certificate for test certificates of this authority. public static void SignHashed(X509Certificate2 card, Stream input, Stream output) { Org.B...

How to upload pdf file into my own server?

Hi! In my site, user want to upload a pdf file and I have to save it into my own server. I don't need the content to be saved. I want the exact file to be copied into my server where the published file of the site exists.How to do this? ...

Signing PDF - multiple signatures with a single revision

Hi, To put it simply - I want to add multiple signatures on a PDF (using iText), without adding new revision for each. I've read the following thread, and it makes much sense (since Bruno wrote the answer) It is obvious, that if the document has 2 revisions, the first signature doesn't cover the second revision. However, is it possibl...

How to create a snapshot or clone of PHP, MySQL page... Inspiration needed

Hi, We have a web application that creates a dynamic PHP page with all the MySQL stored details a user has entered via a number a forms. So far so good, but we want this information stored some how to be refereed to at a later date, as an administrator can make changes to the data, which reflects on calculations that are worked out fro...

Enable pdf caching in IE

At first, caching didn't work in all browsers. Then I made it work in all browsers but IE (IE8) by adding .pdf extension to the url. Servlet stopped being called after that. I display pdf file inline on the webpage via EMBED tag that loads the following url: http://localhost:7001/app/viewFile.pdf Which is generated by java servlet wi...

Is is possible to Download pdf file through pure html?

I'm using link tag to open a pdf file. when clicking that link, the pdf file is opened directly. Is it possible to donwload and save the pdf file to my system through html? ...

Displaying an editable PDF from within a WPF application?

Hi There, Does anyone know any way of displaying an editable PDF from within a WPF application? Ideally I would like to display an editable PDF, and then to have it save to a predefined directory for later use. Thanks ...

Link to retrive pdf file from DB- in asp.net

i have retrived the pdf file from Database and i linked it to a tag to open pdf file using link. now i want to give the open/save dialog box before a pdf file opened . - in javascript(by using onclick event in tag to call the javascript) ...

Extracting information from PDFs of research papers

I need a mechanism for extracting bibliographic metadata from PDF documents, to save people entering it by hand or cut-and-pasting it. At the very least, the title and abstract. The list of authors and their affiliations would be good. Extracting out the references would be amazing. Ideally this would be an open source solution. The ...

To generate a PDF page from an MFC MDI CView

My c++ MFC MDI application displays engineering drawings in its views. What is a good way to dump a CView derived object into a PDF file? What libraries could you suggest (not nesesery free)? I've looked into a few libraries like Cairo and libHaru. It is possible to draw all the graphic components but I was thinking that the CView has...

Do most browsers make multiple HTTP Requests when displaying a PDF from within the browser

Do most (IE, FF, Safari, Chrome, Opera) make multiple HTTP Requests for a PDF file when displaying the PDF in a browser? I am working on an issue integrating with WebTrends Web Analytics software, and the statistics around PDFs appear to be incorrect. Support told me that because WebTrends parses the Web Servers access logs to determine ...

Adobe PDF Certification - Java

I'm currently building a Java daemon that will need to be able to sign and certify PDF documents. Now I've already implemented the code for this, but there is one "little" problem. The problem: The certificate I use needs to automatically be validated via Adobe Reader. To do this you need to make sure your certificate is used by a partn...

Generate ODT/DOC(X) and convert to PDF, without OO.o/MS

I have a WSGI application that generates invoices and stores them as PDF. So far I have solved similar problems with FPDF (or equivalents), generating the PDF from scratch like a GUI. Sadly this means the entire formatting logic (positioning headers, footers and content, styling) is in the application, where it really shouldn't be. As ...

Problem storing plot objects in a list in R

I asked this question yesterday about storing a plot within an object. I tried implementing the first approach (aware that I did not specify that I was using qplot() in my original question) and noticed that it did not work as expected. library(ggplot2) # add ggplot2 string = "C:/example.pdf" # Setup pdf pdf(string,h...