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- From: TuskenTower <tuskentower@gmail.com>
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- Subject: Re: [PLUG] regex
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 18:20:55 -0400
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Jeff,
I don't have a suggestion, but do you mind sharing your PERL and lex
magic? I have looked at PDFs briefly to do some text extraction but
couldn't find what I wanted. So I manually copied data out in 3 hrs.
Amul
On 7/29/07, Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com> wrote:
> I want to extract the comments from a pdf. I know how to do it (in an
> ugly way) with perl, if I assume no comment contains a
> close-parenthesis. I know how to do it with lex if I don't make that
> assumption, but I chose to make that assumption to avoid writing a
> lexer. ;-)
>
> I'm curious if anyone knows an easier way than the above. The problem
> is solved for this time, but I'd like to be more elegant about it next
> time if I can. These are the comments that show up as yellow
> highlights that you have to click on in acrobat reader but that xpdf
> doesn't seem to know how to display.
>
> --
> Jeff
>
> Jeff Abrahamson <http://jeff.purple.com/>
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