How to "read" a Barcode in a PDF? 1

[Andviv]

I have a PDF file with many pages, and some of those pages are simple barcodes.
How can I "get" or read the part of the page that has the barcode, and convert it to a TIFF or JPEG format? (I have an OCX tool that let me read the barcode from these formats but not from PDF). Is there any tool that let me read barcodes from a PDF file?

I need this because I have to create a new PDF file after I can identify a barcode in the original document.
I need this ASAP, can somebody please help me????

Thanks in advance,

 

[vb5prgrmr]

I believe the full version of Adobe Acrobat has a macro that you can use to convert PDF's to Tiff's.

 

[Andviv]

Thanks, I will look for it.

Any other suggestions?

 

[vb5prgrmr]

If you are a VB programmer you could use the PDF.OCX to open and print the files, although you would have to print the pages to a "print to tiff" driver and not a standard printer driver. One of the "print to tiff" drivers that I know of is...

http://www.peernet.com/drivers/D._TIFF_Driver.html

Good Luck

 

[FredWagner]

Kofax Ascent will read barcodes in PDF files, and can use the Barcode to separate documents, as well as pass the value to a Release script which will export the information that was barcoded, as well as OCR info if you want, to DOS (CSV file and images) or to an ODBC database. See

http://www.kofax.com

for details. It's an image capture front end, works with scanners or with TIF or PDF files - it can create TIF files from the imported PDF files, or leave them alone as eDocuments. It can produce and export PDF files from TIF files from scanners. Hope this helps!

Fred Wagner