Re: filter development for beagle

[christopher taylor <christopher paul taylor gmail com>]

i took a peek at that one and it seems like it's purely output
oriented. i'll fiddle some more with it but right now i'm looking at
pdfbox and as of last night - i did a little java-jitsu via ikvmc and
i'm about 75% of the way to completion. just a couple of runtime
errors to figure out (object reference bugs).

but boy getting ikvm built has been a royal pain in the ass. (building
nant + jikes + ikvm_sources = ikvm is ugly as sin)

if the ugliness continues, I'm going to do a little code tracing and
rehack parts of pdfbox inorder to get the text extraction code
running.

ct

On Thu, 07 Oct 2004 02:22:35 -0400, Alex Graveley
<alex beatniksoftware com> wrote:
> 
> Hi Christopher,
> 
> Be sure to check out http://sourceforge.net/projects/sharppdf/.
> 
> -Alex
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 21:20, christopher taylor wrote:
> > Hi guys,
> >
> > I've been speaking with Lahey and  Varadhan about Filters for beagle
> > and I've been told that getting a working pdf filter would be really
> > cool.
> >
> > So, I've been researching this for a couple days now and I've
> > discovered a lot of java based tools for pdf->text filtering.
> >
> > Here's my question... would it be uncool if I just tried to IKVM the
> > java code inorder to test/check out some of these filters in beagle?
> >
> > I'm not sure how hard up all of you are on porting stuff to C# - I
> > mean it would take a little longer to port some of this stuff to C#
> > and for the sake of technical exercise (showing mono's flexibility)
> > and speed I'd like to try and get this working via IKVM.
> >
> > thanks,
> > Chris
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