Read the PDF File and want to convert as text

[prethiv]

Hi,

In Labview, I want to read the PDF file and want to convert as text file. how to do with functions available in Labview?

[prethiv]

Other wise from PDF all the texts should be read in Labview String Indicator

[GerdW]

Hi prethiv,

look for 3rd party (external) tools! There surely will be such tools to extract text from a PDF file.

Otherwise: get the PDF specification from Adobe and create your own PDF parser…

[prethiv]

Hi,

Without External tool there is any other way to do this with the help of functions in Labview?

[GerdW]

Hi prethiv,

as said before: read the PDF specification and create your own parser.

Basically all you need is there: file and string functions… (Maybe you need some GZIP functionality and other stuff, too.)

[StevenD · Accepted solution]

I made a program at one time that was able to get text from pdf files but I did have to use an external tool. (https://pdfbox.apache.org/)

If you really can't use an external tool I don't think there is a super easy way to do this in LabVIEW. PDF's are compressed using various methods, deflate being one of the common ones. But you need to know what compression algorithm is used and how to decompress the data. 

[prethiv]

It is working correctly