Re: [PLUG] regex

On 7/29/07, TuskenTower < tuskentower@gmail.com> wrote:

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.
>
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