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PET database format?
Hey all
Does anyone know the format of the pet database? I was imagining some type of antiquated isam or c or b tree database. Thanks!
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David Avery 05 Lotus Elise (sold) | 08 BMW 135i visit FocusedE, my e-business company | visit Spyderclub |
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11-10-2005, 11:54 AM
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Interesting question, but I don't know the answer.
you know pretty much all the same stuff is available in PDF now, right? may be easier to scrape that.
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11-10-2005, 12:09 PM
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I'd be real interested in knowing that too - and how can you "scrape" a pdf?
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Thanks Andy
Yeah, I know about the PDF version. There are programs wherein you can programattically target regions, etc. and PDF's can be "ocr'ed" in the new releases of acrobat. I would think it would be great to just pull the data out and drop it in a desktop DB for better searches.
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11-10-2005, 12:35 PM
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Well I'll look into it, because I have both the newest full version of acrobat, and the pdf versions for all the parts. If i can extract the data in any meaningfull way I could format it into xml pretty easily - I don't know if they(stuttgart) would frown on that or not, but it sure would make indexing and searching real easy.
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