AFAI can tell... (from a quick google search), there is only a commercial product that can "read" PDF... i.e. PageCatcher from ReportLabs.<div><a href="http://www.reportlab.org/devfaq.html">http://www.reportlab.org/devfaq.html (look at item 2.1.5)</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>BTW, an apparently, non platform-neutral way may be described here: <a href="http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet618.html">http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet618.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, you could always use tools like "pdf2txt" to convert PDF into text, and then read it in, however, as you could guess, you completely miss out on the graphics (i.e. images), and the formatting aspects.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 20, 2008 at 1:36 PM, Harish <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:harish.bhat.m@gmail.com">harish.bhat.m@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi Friends<br>
Is there any utility in python which will help me to read any pdf<br>
files?<br>
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Regards<br>
Harish<br>
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