reading pdf file

[Intos]

I was just thinking to make some simple application where i can read out the
contens of PDF file.
The idea looks quite easy, but :-) it's not.

In my epinion the main problem is that i need to read out just some part of
the document.

Photo is here:

http://i35.tinypic.com/2uqdoq8.jpg

The header ( name,lastname,p hone) is always the same and its always on the
top but the part that i want to read out is

John, Smith ,123456789
Lou , Reed, 123456789
and so on...I dont need the rest of the data.

Additional problem is that there is some extra text under John, Lee....but
it's separeted with space.

I can't convert pdf 2 word but i will not get anything with it.
If i could convert to excel then i can read out colums.

Is there maybe some better or easyer solution ?

[Sjoerd]

Re: reading pdf file

Intos wrote:

I was just thinking to make some simple application where i can read out
the contens of PDF file.

Maybe you can use pdftotext and try to parse the text.