Is there a way to read Adobe PDF files with Python?
sneekula 969 Nearly a Posting Maven
vegaseat 1,735 DaniWeb's Hypocrite Team Colleague
To read and manage Portable Document Files you can use the open source ReportLab toolkit (written in Python) from:
http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html
bumsfeld 413 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
If you have a PC with Windows, you can use wxPython to read PDF files, check:
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet618.html
radc 0 Newbie Poster
import os
os.startfile("myfile.pdf") rogerluz 0 Newbie Poster
2.1.5 Does ReportLab support reading PDFs?
No, the Open Source package doesn't do this.
That's what our commercial PageCatcher product does.
http://www.reportlab.com/software/opensource/rl-toolkit/faq/#2.1.5
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