Load PDF file into NAV 2009R2 and parse into text file

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  ftornero Member Posts: 522

  2018-10-12

  You can try a product call PDFBox
  
  https://pdfbox.apache.org/
  
  Regards,

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  vittoriod Member Posts: 5

  2018-10-15

  Thanks for the feedback, so there is no way to do that using any existing NAVISION automations or any native NAV functionalities?
  Thanks

  Vittorio Delmedico

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  ftornero Member Posts: 522

  2018-10-15

  No, at least to my knowledge.
  
  Other solution is Ghostscript, the last version (9.25)
  
  This is an example of how to use in PowerShell, from an input.pdf you get an output.txt.
  

  $tool = 'C:\\Program Files\\gs\\gs9.25\\bin\\gswin64c.exe'
  & $tool -q -dNOPAUSE -dCOMPLEX -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dTextFormat=3 -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o c:\test\output.txt c:\test\input.pdf
  

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  vittoriod Member Posts: 5

  2018-10-15

  Thanks, but this would mean that we would have to install ghostscript on all nav clients in order to execute the '.exe' file? Another question, how would you execute the code you have just attached on NAV 2009 R2 classic client? Thanks a lot

  Vittorio Delmedico

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  ftornero Member Posts: 522

  2018-10-15

  You can use something like this
  

  IF ISCLEAR(WSHShell) THEN
    CREATE(WSHShell);
  
  WSHExec := WSHShell.Exec(program);
  

  
  Where WSHExec is:
  

  Name	DataType	Subtype	Length
  WSHExec	Automation	'Windows Script Host Object Model'.WshExec	
  

  
  And program is:
  

  program := 'C:\Program Files\gs\gs9.25\bin\gswin64c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -dCOMPLEX -dWRITESYSTEMDICT -dTextFormat=3 -sDEVICE=txtwrite -o c:\test\output.txt c:\test\input.pdf'
  

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  vittoriod Member Posts: 5

  2018-10-15 edited 2018-10-15

  Thank you very much so I should treat it as a normal script.. I'll try and let yo know the result

  Vittorio Delmedico

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