Free(or paid, but prefer free) C++ library for get text infomation out of PDF file?

[Gen Li]

I get a small project to work, the step one is extract information from more than 1000 PDF files.

Is there any good free C++ library I can study and use to search text in PDF, load relative information into memory and write into db or csv.? Since I am studying the C++, I think trying to use c++ as much as possible is a good thing for me.

Thanks a lot!

 

[Daniel Duffy]

What aspects of C++ can be applied to this project? It's essentially file i/o etc.?

 

[Gen Li]

I guess so, it is essential file i/o and string manipulation. But I never code against PDF file before...

Have no idea. Maybe c# is better for this task. Looks like there're some third-party library can parse the content according to the PDF object model into XML data, and developer can manipulate the data from there

 

[ExSan]

Coursera has something you might find useful

 

[WZhang]

Try out this Xpdf but this has advance QT framework syntax and was built on top of QT. QT framework has advance cryptic syntax. Follow the first link about QT and second about the Xpdf viewer. How to Learn Qt | Qt 4.8
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