[reportlab-users] better way?

[Tim Johnson]

* Robin Becker <robin at reportlab.com> [060102 14:50]:
> Tim Johnson wrote:
> >I have pretty much the same issue. 
> >See my post:
> >"Parsing PDF files"
> >
> >I am thus far pretty disappointed that there has been no response, and I
> >hope that you get responses aside from my own.
> >
> >I have been thinking of something similarly to what we do with HTML
> >documents with forms. We parse those documents into python data
> >structures, which can then be edited, enchanced, used as front ends for
> >databases, etc.
> >
> >To do something like this with reportlab and pdf would be wonderful.
> >
> >You're on the right track Richard, I hope there are more responses to
> >your inquiry.
> >tj
> >

  Thanks:

> As has been mentioned many times on this list, ReportLab has a 
> proprietary product (http://www.reportlab.com/pagecatcher_index.html) 
> which captures existing PDF documents. I don't think it has specific 
> support for dynamic forms and it certainly doesn't produce python code, 

  Understood...

> but rather loadable python objects representing the document pages.
   
   Yet, well worth looking into... :)
      
   cheers
   -tim- (who is new to this list)

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