Extract text from PDF. PDF viewer

Hi,

You need WPViewPDF for this.

You can extract the text like this:

l := PDFView.Command(COMPDF_GetTextLen, '', 0);
SetLength(s, l);
PDFView.GetTextBuf(PChar(s), l);

The upcoming V3 will also offer a an easier to use SaveToStream method and also save RTF.

Julian

Hi,

1) I hope to have it within 14 days.

2) You may incorporate the product under the licenses restrictions (no printer driver, general PDF tool) and if ALL developers who took part to develop that product were licensed.

Our components are not licensed per devloping machine, they are always licensed to the count of developers envolved directly or indirectly.

So if you have a medical application devloped by 15 developers and only one person is doing the reports with the PDF proview of the stored PDF documents, you still need a SITE license.

Regards,
Julian

WPViewPDF V3 is available now - it can even save the text in RTF format.

The demo uses this code to demonstrate:

f := TFileStream.Create(SaveDialog1.FileName, fmCreate);
    try
      s := WPViewPDF1.GetPageText(pageNo - 1, 
               ExtractFileExt(SaveDialog1.FileName));
      if s <> '' then f.Write(s[1], Length(s));
    finally
      f.Free;
    end;