Extract PDF

["Mark Storer" <MStorer (at) cardiff.com>]

How do you expect to manipulate the PDF?  Text in particular can be unlike anything you might expect:

Custom encodings (byte values may have nothing to do with ASCII, Unicode, or anything else... encodings are often whipped up on the fly)
Absent encodings (raw glyph indexes into a font with no character mapping info)
Images (line or raster art)

The order elements on a PDF page appear in is dictated solely by Z-order.  All the instances of a particular image might be drawn in succession, followed by all the characters in font X, then font Y, and so on.  It's legal (though unheard of) to draw all the 'a's, then all the 'b's...

The PDFs resources (fonts, images, color definitions, many others) are accessible, but may not be terribly useful.  As I mentioned earlier, a font in a PDF can be stripped of everything but the bare necessities needed to display the glyphs within that PDF.

--Mark Storer 
  Senior Software Engineer 
  Cardiff.com

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> Is there any standard utility to extract everything
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