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If you're just trying to get a text version of a PDF, then I can give a
couple examples of how we've done it. We initially used an open source
application called PDFBox to dump the contents to an IFS text file (example
source snippet below).
A few years ago, I rewrote the application to use another open source tool
called iText, because we wanted to extract data from the PDF labels by
position on the page. We did this, because the text dump had become
unreliable when the customer changed content.
// Run a java application that converts PDF files into text.
QCMDEXC('JAVA CLASS(org.pdfbox.'
+ 'ExtractText) PARM(' + apos
+ PDDir + PDFFile + apos + ' ' + apos
+ tmpDir + TXTFile + apos + ')'
+ ' CLASSPATH(' + apos
+ '/java/pdfbox/PDFBox-0.7.2.jar'
+ apos + ')'
+ ' JOB(*GEN) OUTPUT(*NONE)'
:1024);
// Convert ASCII file into EBCIDC (however its spelled)
QCMDEXC('CPY OBJ(' + apos + tmpDir
+ TXTFile + apos + ')'
+ ' TOOBJ('+apos + tmpDir + TXTFile
+ apos+ ') DTAFMT(*TEXT)'
+ ' REPLACE(*YES) FROMCODPAG(819)'
+ ' TOCODEPAGE(37)'
:1024);
You are correct. I need to read data from the PDF and process it.
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