Re: FN-FORUM: PDF image and text extraction

date posted 1st March 2007 06:39

>
> is this for a web app or just in general day-to-day work? if its
> day-to-day you can import the pdf in to photoshop (i dont think cs/cs2
> have the option though) and it'll extract the images for you. For the
> text cant you use acrobat to highlight/copy the text? or do you need it to
> be automated? PDF to HTML type thing?
>

I need to build an process that requires no user input to extract all images
and all text from a pdf, such that it can either be run from a script on a
webserver or as an application
on a Mac.

John