but if you were using SQL Server, you should be able to.
SQL Server supports XML, PDF is XML.
-Aaron
Assuming you want to do this entirely in Access rather than using a
program made to do it, text extraction can be very hard or very easy
depending on whether or not encription is used, how much compression is
being done within the PDF file and whether or not the linearized PDF
format is being used. Maybe it's just the challenge you're looking for
:-). A text stream may or may not be compressed (usually with flate
compression (Zip), but not always). If so, there will be a flag in the
object stream before the compressed part indicating that the stream is
compressed. Unless, of course, the author of the PDF file has taken the
extra step of compressing the text used for the command stream. It's
rare that storage space is at such a premium that command stream
compression is necessary. Almost any text you would be interested in
would be contained in Page objects. For details see:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/pdfs/pdf_reference.pdf
James A. Fortune
MPAP...@FortuneJames.com
Of course, SQL Server can search through PDFs using Full Text Search.
RIGHT?
On Jun 26, 10:47 am, "James A. Fortune" <MPAPos...@FortuneJames.com>
wrote:
> MPAPos...@FortuneJames.com
Well, you could Select All, Copy and Paste from the PDF to get the text
you want, then do a screen capture to get the images and add those to
something like Word as well, but we want to do it in Access --
automatically. To do the things done by VBA in SQL Server you're
probably talking about using .NET. If you'd like to tackle the PDF text
extraction problem using .NET, go ahead. Please post the code here so
that we can compare it with equivalent VBA code.
James A. Fortune
MPAP...@FortuneJames.com
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Access Code, Tips and Tricks
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