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  • 1.  pdf adapter - Does Mercator have one ?

    Posted 11/09/05 07:20 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    Does anyone know of a way to read pdf files into a map ? Is there an adapter available to accomplish this task ?
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  • 2.  Re: pdf adapter - Does Mercator have one ?

    Posted 11/10/05 06:57 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    There are none available legally. Better to convert the file into plain text externally, then process. That way you could define images as binary objects manually. The type tree could be the real challenge unless the data has some structure. If you just want to use DS TX to move the data untransformed, you could set your tree as a text blob, and don't worry about the file type.
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  • 3.  Re: pdf adapter - Does Mercator have one ?

    Posted 11/11/05 06:34 AM

    Originally posted by: SystemAdmin


    I looked at creating a PDF type tree once but decided the previous poster's advice represented the path of least resistance. There may be a command line program that could be called from a batch adapter but a quick search only turned up Windows-based versions. I suspect an open source program exists for extracting text from a PDF.

    However, if you're fearless, PDF is an open standard available at http://partners.adobe.com/public/developer/pdf/index_reference.html
    Below is the "Hello World" example provided in the standard. Basically, you have to search for stream & endstream tags, extract the text which is can be found between BT & ET tags. The kicker is that often the text between the BT-ET tags is compressed and must be inflated. This requires an external program.

    %PDF−1.4
    1 0 obj
    << /Type /Catalog
    /Outlines 2 0 R
    /Pages 3 0 R
    >>
    endobj
    2 0 obj
    << /Type /Outlines
    /Count 0
    >>
    endobj

    3 0 obj
    << /Type /Pages
    /Kids 4 0 R
    /Count 1
    >>
    endobj
    4 0 obj
    << /Type /Page
    /Parent 3 0 R
    /MediaBox 0 0 612 792
    /Contents 5 0 R
    /Resources << /ProcSet 6 0 R
    /Font << /F1 7 0 R >>
    >>
    >>
    endobj
    5 0 obj
    << /Length 73 >>
    stream
    BT
    /F1 24 Tf
    100 100 Td
    (Hello World) Tj
    ET
    endstream
    endobj
    6 0 obj
    [/PDF /Text]
    endobj
    7 0 obj
    << /Type /Font
    /Subtype /Type1
    /Name /F1
    /BaseFont /Helvetica
    /Encoding /MacRomanEncoding
    >>
    endobj

    xref
    0 8
    0000000000 65535 f
    0000000009 00000 n
    0000000074 00000 n
    0000000120 00000 n
    0000000179 00000 n
    0000000364 00000 n
    0000000466 00000 n
    0000000496 00000 n
    trailer
    << /Size 8
    /Root 1 0 R
    >>
    startxref
    625
    %%EOF
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