Analyse of PDF (or EPS?)

Andrew MacIntyre andymac at bullseye.apana.org.au
Thu Nov 20 17:17:00 EST 2003


On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Johan Holst Nielsen wrote:

> Is there any Python packages to analyse or get some information out of
> an PDF document...
>
> Like where the text are placed - what text are placed - fonts, embedded
> PDFs/fonts/images etc.

I believe that Ghostscript can be used to print PDFs on Postscript
printers; you would then need to find tools to analyse Postscript files.

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