cybertools/text/pdf.py
helmutm 06d4652807 provide text converters for XLS and PPT
git-svn-id: svn://svn.cy55.de/Zope3/src/cybertools/trunk@1626 fd906abe-77d9-0310-91a1-e0d9ade77398
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#
# Copyright (c) 2007 Helmut Merz helmutm@cy55.de
#
# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
# (at your option) any later version.
#
# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
# GNU General Public License for more details.
#
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# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
#
"""
Searchable text support for Portable Document Format (PDF) files.
This uses the pdftotext command from xpdf to perform the extraction.
Based on code provided by zc.index and TextIndexNG3.
$Id$
"""
import os, sys
from cybertools.text import base
class PdfTransform(base.BaseFileTransform):
extension = ".pdf"
def extract(self, directory, filename):
if not self.checkAvailable('pdftotext', 'pdftotext is not available'):
return u''
data = self.execute('pdftotext -enc UTF-8 "%s" -' % filename)
return data.decode('UTF-8')