[Info-vax] Process a .pdf file ?

[Jeffrey H. Coffield]

DTL wrote:
> Hello happy tax payers...
> 
> I'm experimenting an interesting exercise.
> I have a pdf file that I need to process to build an EXCEL file to
> perform some sorting
> pdf file has following format:
> 
> first_name
> last_name
> wedding_name
> (empty_zone)
> birth_date
> birth_addr
> birth_town
> birth_country
> addr1
> addr2
> postal_code
> town
> 
> all fields may *not* be used
> all of this on four lines and three colums in the .pdf
> fortunately a cut/paste to Word gives a one column result
> So, I copied the resulting file in text format to VMS and did some DCL
> to produce a comma-separated file to be imported back to EXCEL, one
> line per person. But I encounter some synchronization issues...
> 
> Should someone around here did (is that good English?) something
> similar, feel free to mail
> didier dot morandi at gmail dot com
> 
> Many thanks !
> 
> DTL DCL same fight
> and the answer is... 42
> 

I have written some PDF parsing routines in OpenVMS Basic for my
typesetting system. If you can send me a sample, I'll take a look to see
if they could be adapted for you. Is this a one time effort or will it
be ongoing?

Jeff Coffield
http://www.digitalsynergyinc.com
http://www.keepmeuptodate.net