[Tutor] PDF to text conversion

[David]

bob gailer wrote:
> Robert Berman wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I must convert a history file in PDF format that goes from May of 1988 
>> to current date.  Readings are taken twice weekly and consist of the 
>> date taken mm/dd/yy and the results appearing as a 10 character 
>> numeric + special characters sequence. This is obviously an easy setup 
>> for a very small database  application with the date as the key, the 
>> result string as the data.
>>
>> My problem is converting the PDF file into a text file which I can 
>> then read and process. I do not see any free python libraries having 
>> this capacity. I did see a PDFPILOT program for Windows but this 
>> application is being developed on Linux and should also run on 
>> Windows; so I do not want to incorporate a Windows only application.
How about pyPdf;
http://pybrary.net/pyPdf/
And an example;
http://code.activestate.com/recipes/511465/

-david
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