Re: filter development for beagle

[Veerapuram Varadhan <vvaradhan novell com>]

On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 07:53 -0400, christopher taylor wrote:
> 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.
> 

There is something called as iText:
http://iTextsharp.sf.net and seems to be active in development and
sounds interesting too.

V. Varadhan.