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by web3dprint
Tue Aug 08, 2017 8:38 pm
Forum: Applications
Topic: Read PDF contents to rename file
Replies: 4
Views: 92955

Re: Read PDF contents to rename file

Zoranj wrote:Another suggestion is to save PDF as txt file and read it that way, perhaps using Regex to match what you need.
Hmm that sounds interesting… how would you save to txt from a PDF? Never seen that before
by web3dprint
Tue Aug 08, 2017 1:22 pm
Forum: Applications
Topic: Read PDF contents to rename file
Replies: 4
Views: 92955

Read PDF contents to rename file

I'm looking for a way to read a section of a PDF file to use it as the name for such file. The text would be in a Text element, so no need to do OCR or anything like that. I thought that by using PitStop Pro i can read the contents of a Text element, but it does not seem possible. Do you have any ot...
by web3dprint
Thu Apr 20, 2017 6:10 pm
Forum: Flows
Topic: Prefer one file over another
Replies: 1
Views: 1530

Prefer one file over another

We're stuck trying to find a solution to this problem: at some point in our flow, as input we receive many job files, we group them by a string in their name (which is our internal job name) and often one job has a standard file, other times it can also have a file with a "_VDP" in the fil...
by web3dprint
Sat Feb 27, 2016 2:17 am
Forum: Flows
Topic: how to read stderr with the execute command tool
Replies: 2
Views: 1461

Re: how to read stderr with the execute command tool

Thank you for your answer! I already changed my strategy, basically outputting to a different file on error (instead of stderr). Not the same but it works!

Cheers!
by web3dprint
Fri Feb 26, 2016 5:16 pm
Forum: Flows
Topic: how to read stderr with the execute command tool
Replies: 2
Views: 1461

how to read stderr with the execute command tool

Hello, I'm quite new to Switch. I created a command line tool to prepare some files, since we don't have the scripting package I simply used Node.js as tool and passed it my script. http://cl.ly/2k1i0Y431F39/Screen%20Shot%202016-02-26%20at%2017.07.12.png My tool writes to the output file correctly w...