PDF Reader

Read in the text from PDF files

Description

This code will read in the text on a PDF file and place it into a MATLAB variable. It places each page from the PDF into a cell so that you can later remove headers/footers.

You will need the professional version of Acrobat Reader because it uses the COM Server interface to the reader.

2 Files:

readPDF - Reads in the text and returns a cell array.

Findmatchtext - Tries to find the header/footer and return a struct with the header/footer removed from the pages.

• MATLAB release: MATLAB 7.5 (R2007b)
• Other requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader full version http://acrobat.softwarecenterz.com/
• Other Files: readPDF.m, ; findmatchtext.m

[s lee]

works fine with english text

[Saad Mansoor]

When I try to run it in MATLAB it gives the following error,

??? No appropriate method or public field Add for class COM.AcroExch_HiliteList.

Error in ==> readPDF at 48
hilite.Add(0,wordsPerPage); %capture 1000 words off page

Can you please tell me what is the problem?

[Saad Mansoor]

Now its working for me. After I read the file I wan't to change the name of the file to some text extracted from the file. This MATLAB doesnot do and gives error that the file is being used by another process. What should I do?

[pino ang]

doesn't work...

pdDoc=actxserver('AcroExch.PDDoc');

filename = 'sdarticle.pdf';

pdDoc.Open(filename);

??? Error using ==> open
Too many output arguments.

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any solutions?