PDF reader?

[Jack Black]

DroidScript pdf ı do not read

[Steve Garman]

I normally open whatever reader is on the phone/tablet.

var path = "/sdcard/Download/MyBill.pdf";
app.OpenFile( path,"application/pdf" );

[JAUREGUI]

Just a question, Is it posible to read text from a pdf file like app.ReadFile() method?
I am doing something just for me but I had to save as txt file from Adobe, can it be done directly?

[Steve Garman]

JAUREGUI,

There is nothing built in to DroidScript to parse pdf.

There are JavaScript pdf reader libraries available on github.

I expect some of them would be usable in DroidScript but I have not tested any.

It might be worth looking in npmjs to see if there is anything that can be browserified to make a plugin.

[nikhil baby]

use online api

[Charles Wilt]

It is not likely to be browserified due to binary file dependencies.

[Dave Smart]

I've found a .jar file that does a pretty good job of converting pdf to html if you are interested?  Not sure it will work on Android but it works fine on Windows.  If it works on Android then someone could turn it into a DS plugin ;)

Search on google for these files:-

PDFToHTML.jar

cssbox-4.12.jar

[Warren Downs]

JAUREGUI, it looks like this example might do what you want, using pure Javascript, with some adaptation.  Instead of using binary AJAX calls to fetch file file from a remote server, you would use the DroidScript low-level file access to read it.  Then you would proceed with the processing.

Be aware that performance will probably not be the best (The Java library Dave mentioned would likely be faster).  Also, with any PDF to text solution, you can lose formatting.

[JAUREGUI]

Thanks a lot for your time, I will try your suggestions guys, if works will be really helpful.