find in smartpdf files

[Wanderer]

On Jan 6, 11:20 am, Dan M <catd... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 06 Jan 2011 08:11:34 -0800, Wanderer wrote:
> > We generate PCB assembly files in pdf format using SmartPDF. This allows
> > us to search for a component in the assembly using the find feature. We
> > would like to be able to generate a list of components sorted by part
> > type and then use that list to cycle through a search by ref designator
> > in the pdf file. Is there a way to use Python scripts to interface PDF
> > files?
>
> > Thanks
>
> Would PDFMiner help with your task?http://www.unixuser.org/~euske/python/pdfminer/index.html

I'm not sure. I'll check it out.