Re: PDF file data extract

From: Troy Melhase <troy@gci.net>
Date: Sat May 22 2004 - 00:10:38 AKDT

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

On Friday 21 May 2004 11:21 pm, W.D.McKinney wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-21 at 07:53, Hassler, Jeff wrote:
> > I need to extract the data from bank statements received as .pdf docs.
> > The alternative is to receive the data as BAI2 files, which the unamed
> > banks treat as a revenue extortion racket.
> >
> > Anyone know of a tool to parse data out of a .pdf?
>
> Good questions Jeff. I would ask Adobe as it's a commercial app and they
> have the ability.

But why bother when there are Free and free tools?

http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/home.html

http://research.compaq.com/SRC/virtualpaper/pstotext.html

http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/index.html

- --
Troy Melhase, troy@gci.net
- --
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational
creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work,
and guided. - Locke

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFArwsIY7QSTRCBoM4RAncCAJ0VFFWMq7fLiOxXLD5eY2v2B1Iv3QCfcL8E
iR86K4VWBJz6G47CST5vcTQ=
=dm6k
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
---------
To unsubscribe, send email to <aklug-request@aklug.org>
with 'unsubscribe' in the message body.
Received on Sat May 22 00:01:28 2004

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.8 : Sat May 22 2004 - 00:01:29 AKDT