Reading PDF files

Is there a way to read Adobe PDF files with Python?

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To read and manage Portable Document Files you can use the open source ReportLab toolkit (written in Python) from:
http://www.reportlab.org/rl_toolkit.html

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If you have a PC with Windows, you can use wxPython to read PDF files, check:
http://www.daniweb.com/code/snippet618.html

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import os
os.startfile("myfile.pdf")

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2.1.5 Does ReportLab support reading PDFs?

No, the Open Source package doesn't do this.

That's what our commercial PageCatcher product does.

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