[Year 12 SofDev] Question Re SAT need/opportunity

[Guy Flaherty]

Hi Mary,

Rendering pdf files inside an application will really depend on the environment the student is using. If the student has access to a web view object, something that can display html, it should be possible to display the file. The student may be able to leverage a control that opens the installed web browser on the target machine and uses that for the display, for example. Otherwise, if they can display a html page through some kind of html control, they might be able to utilise a javascript library like pdf.js to display the pdf. Finally, if they don't have access to this, I suggest having the student look at pipelining the file to postscript and then to text/html as required. There are opensource tools available for this in the ghostscript libs and I am pretty sure they work on windows?! This will not work well for all pdfs but does work pretty well for text heavy documents.

Good luck,
Guy Flaherty

From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Kent Beveridge
Sent: Tuesday, 8 March 2016 8:42 AM
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Subject: Re: [Year 12 SofDev] Question Re SAT need/opportunity

May be far easier to open the PDFs in other software and save as a text file...then read THIS file for his program.

Kent Beveridge
Teacher

On 7 Mar 2016, at 2:06 PM, Mark <mark at vceit.com<mailto:mark at vceit.com>> wrote:
Hi Mary

Do you mean the program searches the contents of a PDF?  Decoding a PDF file would be way beyond the scope of an SD SAC, IMO.

Or maybe a list of PDF filenames is searched for key words and a matching PDF file is loaded by the OS ... that would be achievable.

Otherwise, I'm unsure what the student's requirements are.

Cheers
Mark

On 7 March 2016 at 13:32, Mary Ho <homn at aquinas.vic.edu.au<mailto:homn at aquinas.vic.edu.au>> wrote:
Hi

I'd appreciate any feedback from you amazing teachers out there.

I have a student who has a need, this need is to read in a pdf document into his program, once a search has been performed the relevant pdf file will load in and display on screen.  Is this a viable project?  He will also create a form that allows his client to enter data when adding in a new report of incidents..

Sorry about the vagueness.  So he will have UI, programming logic, store of new reports and folder containing the pdf documents

Thanks in advance

Mary

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