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+58- Celebrity
This would make some of my projects a lot easier. For a certain client I have to design a map in vector and then deliver individual layers as PNG files (sometimes in excess of 20000 pixels per side). My current workflow is to write out individual PDF's from Illustrator and rasterize them in Photoshop. This often takes a lot of time and requires some manual actions by me (open file, set size, save file). If I could just run it through FME that would at the very least save me the manual work.
+5Would be very useful. We get lots of site plans and data in PDF's, FME could save lots of time in digisiting sites.
+9- Contributor
This would be very useful at the moment. We have upcoming requests to read PDF so would be interested in having a reader to analyse geospatial PDF
+20- Safer
I can confirm that we've been laying the groundwork for this. Won't be in 2016.1, but I'd be surprised if we didn't a form of PDF reading by end of calendar 2016. @ciarab can I ask you to send a couple sample PDFs into support@safe.com so we can be sure your scenario is targetted?
+6- Participant
I never realized I have to do this but true enough I have are projects that would require this. Thanks for the update @daleatsafe. If you need some more PDFs to try let me know.
+25- Supporter
There is a new open source implementation towards GDAL that reads PDF - more information here http://blog.klokantech.com/2016/08/pdfium-geopdf-driver-in-gdal-21.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+klokan-blog-osgeo+%28Blog%3A+Klokan+Petr+P%C5%99idal%29 @fme_lizard @daleatsafe
We have been using A-PDF Data extractor to extract data from pdfs. We use a system caller to connect to the app. We hope to see a similiar feature directly in FME without the need of a 3rd party app.
+22- Contributor
At this moment I have no need for a PDF reader.
But I will vote for it as it might speed up the improvements for the PDF writer that I do need:
https://knowledge.safe.com/idea/38680/better-pdf-writer-support.html
+8I tried to read text from a pdf file using a PythonCaller and the pdfminer plugin, and it went pretty well. For a start? Like this:
import fme import fmeobjects import sys import chardet from pdfminer.pdfinterp import PDFResourceManager, PDFPageInterpreter from pdfminer.pdfpage import PDFPage from pdfminer.converter import XMLConverter, HTMLConverter, TextConverter from pdfminer.layout import LAParams from cStringIO import StringIO # Template Function interface: # When using this function, make sure its name is set as the value of # the 'Class or Function to Process Features' transformer parameter def processFeature(feature): data = FME_MacroValues['SourcePdfFile'] fp = file(data, 'rb') rsrcmgr = PDFResourceManager() retstr = StringIO() codec = 'utf-8' laparams = LAParams() device = TextConverter(rsrcmgr, retstr, codec=codec, laparams=laparams) # Create a PDF interpreter object. interpreter = PDFPageInterpreter(rsrcmgr, device) # Process each page contained in the document. for page in PDFPage.get_pages(fp): interpreter.process_page(page) data = retstr.getvalue() e = chardet.detect(data) u = None try: if e['confidence'] > 0.3: u = unicode(data, e['encoding']) except: pass if u: feature.setAttribute('pdfcontent', u) else: feature.setAttribute('pdfcontent', data) pass
+5- Contributor
I use poppler to read PDF as Raster. Basically it just converts pdf files to jpgs and then u read the jpg.
+31- Influencer
I'm late to the party, but I vote for this. My primary use would be change detection between two GeoPDF's.
+20- Safer
Hi all -- what better way to start the year than to try out the new PDF reader in FME 2018 betas. Builds 18236 and later have it. Get it from http://www.safe.com/download and let us know what you think. @ciarab @marko @redgeographics @geospatiallover @gschleusner @sigtill @cartoscro @dannymatranga @zubairsm FYI
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