Work with PDF documents

[msd 5]

Hello Developers,

 

I have one specific situation with PDF documents.

I get one PDF document for over 2.500 invoices as one file with 2.500 pages, and I need to separate every page of that document as 2.500 separate documents for each Byer and read two positions of the current page to get information about Byer.

 

I found a lot of documentation, but there are no samples like this. If someone has an idea or experience with these PDF problems, please post it here.

 

Thanks in advance...

[misc_bb 7]

I have been using PDFtk (https://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/) in our Delphi apps to merge documents. I haven't tried splitting but PDFtk has also the splitting function. you may want to give it a try. As for our case, we utilized the command prompt and we just issue a call Shellexecute in our app. Works just fine.

 

 

[Alexander Sviridenkov 339]

HTML Office Library can extract information from each page as HTML or plain text. Also HTML from each page can be saved back to separate PDF.

[Fr0sT.Brutal 897]

PDFium lib or an external console tool

[Brian Evans 83]

I sometimes use pdftotext + parsing with grep strings to extract specific data from PDFs with regular formatting. Has worked well in a variety of situations. 

 

pdftotext - Wikipedia

[Alexander Halser 20]

PDFium lib does all you need. We use it with an internal application that deals with PDF pages. Add or remove pages, split pages into several smaller ones, re-combine smaller pages into one printer page. PDFium can extract text as well.