[Hidden-tech] Looking for GOOD pdf-to-text converter = PDFTextStream

[Chas Emerick]

Indeed, PDF content extraction is one of our specialties.  That's  
what PDFTextStream does (as Michael rightly pointed out), and people  
often come to us when they've strained the abilities of free or cheap  
tools past the breaking point.

In addition to the downloads we offer, you can get a *glimpse* of  
PDFTextStream's functionality at the online demo site, which requires  
no downloads thanks to its AJAX-y browser-based interface:

http://pdftextonline.com

PDFTextStream is available for Java, .NET, or Python, so I'm sure  
that either you could find someone to script what you need done, or  
we can put something together for you.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Cheers,

Chas Emerick
Founder, Snowtide Informatics Systems
Enterprise-class PDF content extraction

cemerick at snowtide.com
http://snowtide.com | +1 413.519.6365


On Dec 22, 2006, at 3:09 PM, Michael McIntosh wrote:

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> Hello Mary,
>
> It just so happens there is a company in the area named Snowtide
> Informatics offering a product called PDFTextStream that I think does
> exactly what you want!
>
> The product website is located here:
>
> http://snowtide.com/PDFTextStream
>
> They offer a trial version of the software so you can try it out to  
> see
> if it works for you. Good luck!
>
> -Michael McIntosh
> Senior Search Architect
> TNR Global, LLC
>
> Mary Malmros wrote:
>>   ** The author of this post was a Good Dobee.
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>> Greets, all,
>> I'm looking for software that can convert PDF to text, and ideally  
>> that has some options for reformatting or global replacement,  
>> since what I most often need to do is to break a PDF file down  
>> into fields and spit out tab-delimited text.  I've been using a  
>> freeware product that just isn't reliable when big files are  
>> involved.  Does anyone have something they like for this?
>> TIA,