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Has anyone parsed the contents of a PDF document using TCL?

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  • September 6, 2018 at 11:55 pm #55778
    David Coffey
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      Actually I do know of a shop that has done it to extract PHI to build the HL7 on the fly, I am hoping they respond.  Anyone else?  How is this done?  

      David Coffey

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      • September 7, 2018 at 9:08 pm #86483
        David Barr
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          Install poppler-utils on Redhat. This includes a utility called “pdftotext”. You can write your message out to a file, then you can exec the pdftotext utility from TCL and read the output back in. You’ll have to parse the results based on the format of the data in the PDF and convert it to HL7. It usually helps to run “pdftotext -layout”. This makes the output correspond to the order of items on the page rather than the order they appear in the PDF file (they can differ).

        • September 7, 2018 at 9:13 pm #86484
          David Coffey
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            I’m sorry I should have posted that I am running 5.8.5 on Windows.  I am aware of the linux utility but I am on the wrong OS.

          • September 7, 2018 at 9:59 pm #86485
            David Barr
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              You can get a Windows version of Poppler (http://blog.alivate.com.au/poppler-windows/), or you can use the Poppler package from Cygwin, which is what I use on Windows.

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