After extracting the PDF contents, we would have all the plain text that
now needs to be intelligently parsed. Unfortunately, writing such a parser
would require a LOT of work due to the subtle inconsistencies across cards.
Yes, this COULD be done. However, the PDF data represents a very poor
resource for this purpose compared to a spreadsheet or database that
already has all the material pulled into individual fields. That's what I'm
hoping someone has. If not, then someone will ultimately have to write the
PDF contents parser, which will likely require lots more work. That's what
I'd like to avoid.
-Rob
At 09:08 AM 4/17/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>--- In
cardvault@yahoogroups.com, Rob Bowes <rob@w...> wrote:
>
>Decipher use cut/copy protection in Quark as their PDFs are produced.
>There must be some program that strips the protection off PDFs (I
>know, a bit dodgy) and can get the plain text.
>
>Dave
>
> > To my knowledge, no one has yet located a usable electronic version
>of
> > complete spoiler data for the game. The PDF on the Decipher site is
>a very
> > poor resource for this purpose. What's needed is a spreadsheet,
>database,
> > or something along those lines that has each field of data
>separately
> > identified. If you are aware of such a resource, please let us know.
> >
> > Thanks, Rob
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Lone Wolf Development
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