Gareth Horton
July 12th, 2002, 02:43 PM
Hi Patrick,
Our latest Redwing V1.02 is only compatible with Adobe Acrobat 4x and the Adobe Writer files it produces. It is not forward compatible to Adobe Acrobat 5x or the files it produces.
PDF files may have many different formats, including images.
Saving as a .pdf file from Crystal does not produce a text file. It creates an "Image" of the document giving it a .pdf extension. Redwing cannot process files that are scanned or that contain images. It can only extract text.
I would suggest installing a Generic Text Printer and try Printing to File from Crystal. See if the format of the text .prn file is more what you need.
DEE MOORE
Patrick Ho wrote:
> I have used Crystal Report 8.5 (Developer Edition) to create a report and converted it to PDF format. Then, I used Redwing (working with Acrobat 4.0) to do some zoning on it and tried to extract data (text, table, etc) from the zones. However, nothing was extracted.
>
> Later, I found that the PDF engine which came with Crystal Report was Acrobat 5 (instead of version 4.0) Now, the question is:
>
> Can I perform report mining, using Redwing with Acrobat 4, on PDF files that are generated by Acrobat 5? Please kindly advise.
Our latest Redwing V1.02 is only compatible with Adobe Acrobat 4x and the Adobe Writer files it produces. It is not forward compatible to Adobe Acrobat 5x or the files it produces.
PDF files may have many different formats, including images.
Saving as a .pdf file from Crystal does not produce a text file. It creates an "Image" of the document giving it a .pdf extension. Redwing cannot process files that are scanned or that contain images. It can only extract text.
I would suggest installing a Generic Text Printer and try Printing to File from Crystal. See if the format of the text .prn file is more what you need.
DEE MOORE
Patrick Ho wrote:
> I have used Crystal Report 8.5 (Developer Edition) to create a report and converted it to PDF format. Then, I used Redwing (working with Acrobat 4.0) to do some zoning on it and tried to extract data (text, table, etc) from the zones. However, nothing was extracted.
>
> Later, I found that the PDF engine which came with Crystal Report was Acrobat 5 (instead of version 4.0) Now, the question is:
>
> Can I perform report mining, using Redwing with Acrobat 4, on PDF files that are generated by Acrobat 5? Please kindly advise.