1. Seybold SF 2002 Mark Stephens (Managing Director)

2. www.idrsolutions.com Who are IDRSolutions? Established 1999 Based in United Kingdom, resellers in Australia and USA. Customers range from large multi-nationals to individuals. Focus – Systems integration & extracting content from pdf.

3. www.idrsolutions.com Why extract data from pdf files? Retrieve content from pdf files. Extract data from legacy systems using printed output which can be easily converted into pdf. xml

4. www.idrsolutions.com Extraction from pdf Pdf files lack structure so the items on the page are not connected. We develop algorithms to group the content from different types of page layout to meet customers’ requirements.

5. www.idrsolutions.com What do we offer? Storypad Enterprise – a high end extraction and repurposing tool. Personal – a low-end extraction tool for pdf. Customized – versions to suit specific requirements. A new LGPL library for pdf. Cross-platform tools written in Java Native windows exe (dll ??)

6. www.idrsolutions.com Java Pdf Extraction Decoder Access Library Routines to read and parse pdf files Extraction of raw and scaled/clipped images Extraction of text fragments as XML Font information converted to XML metadata Location on page of objects Page Rasterizer Examples included Active development Free of all dependencies – ie Acrobat SDK LGPL license –no license fee, full source code

7. www.idrsolutions.com LGPL and Open Source Open Source offers ONE way to keep costs down, improve flexibility and match user requirements. Examples – itext, Zope, JBoss, MySQL, Linux, Xpdf, Ghostscript, Apache, Samba, GIMP….

8. www.idrsolutions.com Free as in air, not beer Access to the source code. Right to modify the code. No license fees required. No limitations on usage. Limited lock-in Commercial support/development available. No support. Cannot be passed off as your own work. Acquisition cost – time to understand the software, modify it to meet requirements, test, support.

9. www.idrsolutions.com More details Visit our websites at www.idrsolutions.com www.jpedal.org Or come and see us…