Re: Slightly OT: Does anyone have a way to &nb...

Excuse me again...

I appreciate your correspondence on the matter, but I don't understand your last comment.

My point is that if the file is solely a PDF/Image (as I have found examples of), then there are no fonts listed in the PDF at all (as you correctly stated).

-- Your initial reply was a recommendation to filter by fonts.

-- Yet you agree that there may not be ANY fonts, so that's not an accurate determination (my reply).

-- Then your last comment telling me I should read the PDF Reference [Manual]...this will presumably hold the key to determining the codepage/language of a document?

The "puzzle" is still in the subject of the email. Are you saying you know the answer, but do not want to divulge it, and I should RTFM, because it's most certainly in there? Understanding all the permutations of how a PDF can be made-up is going to have an answer to my question? Even when all I have is Image [streams] on each page?

Sorry, but I'm still searching for an answer, and I just wanted to clarify your "Sage" advice.

Thanks again for your time.

-AJ

----- Original Message -----

From: Leonard Rosenthol

To: Aaron J Weber ; itext-questions@lists.sourceforge.net

Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2006 10:02 AM

Subject: Re: [iText-questions] Slightly OT: Does anyone have a way to determine the language or even codepage of a PDF?

At 09:51 AM 7/20/2006, Aaron J Weber wrote:

Thanks for the suggestion. I had thought about that. But what if the document is PDF-Image (doesn't have a significant text "layer")?

        Then you won't find any fonts in the document.   (keep in mind that a PDF isn't a single thing - each object on each page is unique).

Then I'm just going to have a lot of binary stream data in there with very little (if any) notation of fonts, right?

        Nope - you won't be bothering with the images.

Puzzling stuff... :(

        Not really if you read the PDF Reference to better understand how a PDF is made up.

Leonard

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Re: [iText-questions] Slightly OT: Does anyone have a way to determine the language or even codepage of a PDF?

Aaron J Weber

2006-07-20

Re: [iText-questions] Slightly OT: Does anyone have a way to
determine the language or even codepage of a PDF?