file-conversion

How read PDF file and put content into string? Using PHP language. You could use something like pdftotext which comes with the Xpdf package on linux. The popen command can then be used to pipe the output of pdftotext into a string: $mystring = ""; $fd = popen("/usr/bin/pdftotext blah.pdf","r"); if ($fd) { while (($myline = fgets($fd)) !== false) { $mystring .= $myline; } } advanced_noob Found this really nice class! Further, you can add functionality to fit your needs. PDF2Text - Pastebin Probably these will help you to add functionality: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/pdf/pdf_reference.html http

Is there a way to convert a dta file to a csv ? I do not have a version of Stata installed on my computer, so I cannot do something like: File --> "Save as csv" The frankly-incredible data-analysis library for Python called Pandas has a function to read Stata files. After installing Pandas you can just do: >>> import pandas as pd >>> data = pd.io.stata.read_stata('my_stata_file.dta') >>> data.to_csv('my_stata_file.csv') Amazing! radek You could try doing it through R. For Stata <= 13 - there are two options. Use the haven package to read the dataset and then you simply write it to external CSV