[vox-tech] Getting document name from inside a PDF

Bill Kendrick vox-tech@lists.lugod.org
Sun, 13 Apr 2003 23:09:50 -0700


On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 10:39:18PM -0700, Bill Kendrick wrote:
> 
> Do PDFs somehow store a 'document name' inside them?

Digging around more, it seems, yes... they do :^)


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> Is there a simple tool to do this?  (I'm especially curious if there's
> a way to do this directly within PHP, as it's a PHP script that
> needs to show this stuff.)

Switching from a Google search to a Freshmeat.net search, I quickly found:

  http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

and:

  http://www.ovmj.org/samanta/libextractor/

Which look promising. :)

-bill!

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