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parsing pdf files

Hi,
I want to parse Acrobat Reader pdf file, and get only the text from it.
I'm writing in C++.
Does anybody knows the API.

Thanks.

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have a look at http://fileformat.virtualave.net/ind_form.htm

and search for pdf12.zip or pdf13.zip there may help work out how to parse the file

you can download the Acrobat SDK from adobe, look for it in www.adobe.com

hi, here's the actual url:
http://partners.adobe.com/asn/developer/acrosdk/acrobat.html

Try to download ghostscript source code. It accepts PDF http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/.

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