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From: "Dina " <corsair_dee@hotmail.com>
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Subject: Re: open a pdf file to the GUI
Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 01:04:02 +0000 (UTC)
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roberson@ibd.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson) wrote in
message <g7ipa4$mvt$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca>...
> In article <g7in8v$oa3$1@fred.mathworks.com>,
> Dina  <corsair_dee@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >i'm working on an OCR project .. and was wondering if anyone
> >knows how to open a pdf file to the GUI.
> 
> What do you mean by "open a pdf file" in this context? 
> Matlab does not have any routines to display PDF files itself.
> You could call upon an external application to display the
> postscript file, such as by using system().
> 
> If it was your hope to be able to read and process images that
> are stored in PDF files, then Sorry, at least as of 2007a
there
> are no Matlab facilities to process PDF files as inputs.
> -- 
>   "And that's the way it is."                 -- Walter
Cronkite


i was hoping i could read and process pdf file in matlab yes.

there's a function in the activeX that does it i think ..
but i dunno how to work with activeX :S .. it's too
complicated for me as a begginer

but thanx anyway