[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: Read a PDF File using Progress

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In theory, you could write 4GL to read pdf files. But in practice, you can't. The pdf file format is extremely complicated and writing and testing a decoder would take you several years. I advise you to invoke a use an already written third-party pdf reader utility or a pdf extractor utility. There are utilities that can extract all the text from a pdf. Also ones to extract the pictures.

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