How best i can store a word doc in sql server 2008 and retrieving in HTML format to show it in a JSP FILE
the html file should not loose the Rich text format and images.
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prasad
Although not quite raw HTML output, this can be done using the Google Docs viewer in an embedded iframe and can be accomplished in two steps. You will need to first create a Servlet or JAX-RS which will provide the document as a resource. There are many examples on how to do this, but you might want to start here. Then you can write your JSP with a simple iframe using the Google Doc's viewer URI which references your resource URI:
<iframe src=""http://docs.google.com/gview?embedded=true&url=http://your.document/resource"></iframe>
The end result is quite useful as it contains many standard Google Docs features. Here is also a sample of what the iframe will display.
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A little startup I am doing work for is searching for a JavaScript Org Chart, and we believe we'd like to use "GetOrgChart" from getorgchart.com.
We definitely have a working back-end already that provides data to the front-end via RESTful services and provides JSON data.
We know the GetOrgChart can be loaded with data from various sources, and in this case we'd like to know what format the JSON has to be in?
Are there any examples out there of how the JSON should look like?
We'd definitely like to download and register this product, but that is one of the questions we'd like to get answered.
Thanks!
On their demos page, you can click the 'Get HTML Code' link (upper right, below the site header) which opens the javascript used to render the demo, including the format of the data.
my keys and values for translating the web app (AngularJS) are located in DB
Is there a way for razor to get a request for sample_{culture}.html and manipulate the html containing translation keys to return a translated html?
If you get your translation strings from the db instead of a resx file, you have to write your own resource provider:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa905797.aspx
This is not complicated and there are examples out there for a DB resource provider.
Once you have that, you can just localized the razer cshtml files. I don't think this works with normal html files though.
I have created a "connector" with a very nice tool called import.io which allows me to do a search inquiry by a other website and gets me an resultlist. I followed an other article by stackoverflow.com to do this:
basic import.io html search
This works well. But my question now:
How i style my HTML(Resultlist) with CSS like on this site?
Thanks
To get the data from your API into a web page you need to access the API via a programming language or script. Once you have the API return the Data as Json, you could try something like http://json2html.com/ to convert the Data into HTML and write that to your page.
Alternatively you could download the data as CSV, open it in excel and wrap html tags around the data and copy paste that into your website. its not idea, but at least you can get the data online.
I have created a rrdcgi script to display information about the system performance with graphs. Now I would like to add an option for the users to create PDF on the fly with the details on current page (images and information) and header and footer. I also want the generated PDF files to be saved in some location so that that can be easily accessed next time. Is this possible to do with rrdcgi or any Perl code would be really appreciated.
I need this options
You need to consider what you want to put in the PDF: Do you want an exact replica of the web page the user is viewing (too hard to be close to impossible without having the user's browser installed on your side and using its print output) or do you want the same information in a roughly similar layout?
An important issue is how you are generating the HTML: I did something similar once to generate PDF receipts for experiment participants (now, I just output HTML with print styles).
The HTML is generated using HTML::Template although Template.pm would be just as fine.
It is then trivial to write another template, one that generates a LATEX document which can be processed using pdflatex. If you save the data the time the snapshot is requested, you can add the snapshot to a queue that generates documents asynchronously so that requests do not tie up the web server.
Update: Looking at rrdcgi, I now realize that it already does use a template. That is perfect: Instead of putting HTML in the template, put LATEX code in the template and run rrdcgi with the --filter option to create a LATEX source file which you can run through pdflatex. I guess the problem to solve there is to be able to use the exact same data that was used to generate the page the user is looking at.
If it is not possible to re-run rrdcgi with the exact same data, consider adding some JavaScript that submits the HTML source of the page the user is reviewing (or some JSON representation thereof) to a CGI script that parses the HTML and outputs LATEX. Writing clean HTML in the original template and judicious use of class and id attributes would help there.
I do not have time to test any of these ideas right now, but I will take a look again within the next couple of days.
Is it worth the effort?
Why don't you add a FAQ explaining how to setup a PDF-printer on Windows/MAC/Linux and provide a 'clean' page that can then be printed?
Since you apparently have to create the PDF,
take a look at this (what-is-the-best-perl-module-to-use-for-creating-a-pdf-from-scratch) post here on SO.
There is also this post, that could combine the 'clean' HTML page and a server-side print.
Regarding the LaTeX route, if you have rrdcgi generate graphs in pdf format, pdflatex will be able to integrate them directly into the document, producing super quality pdf with graphs ... very slick. Sorry, no code.
My company receives data from an external company via Excel. We export this into SQL Server to run reports on the data. They are now changing to PDF format, is there a way to reliably port the data from the PDF and insert it into our SQL Server 2008 database?
Would this require writing an app or is there an automated way of doing this?
As already mentioned - you will have to write an app to do this, but ideally you would be able to get the raw data from the external company rather than having to process the PDF.
However, if you do want to extract the data from the PDF, I've used iText and found it to be very powerful, reliable and most importantly - free. It comes in Java and .Net flavours - iTextSharp is the .Net version. It allows you to programatically manipulate PDF documents and it will expose the contents of the PDF to the application that you write.
It all depends on how they've included the data within the PDF. Generally speaking, there's two possible scenarios here:
The data is just a text object within a PDF. You'll need to use a tool to extract the text from the PDF then insert it into your database.
The data is contained within form fields in a PDF. You'll need to use a tool to extract data from the form fields and insert it into your database.
Hopefully scenario #2 applies to you because this is precisely what PDF forms are designed for. Scenario #1 is really just a hack that you'd only use if you didn't have any other options. Extracting plain text from a PDF isn't as easy or accurate as you might expect.
If you're receiving a PDF form then all you need to do is match up the right fields in the PDF form with the corresponding fields in your database and then suck in the data. This process could be entirely automated if you wrote your own application.
Would this require writing an app or
is there an automated way of doing
this?
Yes, both of these options would require writing an app or buying an app. If you write your own app then you'll need to find a third-party PDF library that supports retrieving data from form fields or extracting text from a PDF.
Disclaimer: I am affiliated with the makers of ByteScout PDF Extractor SDK tool
Just wanted to share some additional real-life scenarios for text data extraction from PDF:
Scanned image with no searchable text: should be processed by OCR engine (like free Tesseract from Google)
XFA forms: it is the subset of PDF which is supported mostly by Adobe tools. But the data can be extracted as XML data with low level PDF processing tools like iTextSharp or similar tools.
ZUGFeRD PDF files which are just PDF documents with the copy of a form data attached as XML file (which can be extracted with tools like this)
Text incorrectly encoded by some PDF generators (can be restored via OCR engine with some acceptable error rate though).
Using ItextSharp, do the following
using System;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using iTextSharp.text.pdf;
protected void BtnSubmit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
String FilePath = #"GetFilePath";
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(FilePath);
PdfStamper myStamp = new PdfStamper(reader, new FileStream(FilePath + "_TMP", FileMode.Create));
AcroFields form = myStamp.AcroFields;
if (form.GetField("GetFieldIdFromPDF") != null)
sb.Append(form.GetField("GetFieldIdFromPDF").ToString());
}
I think you will have to write an application for this. This question talks about extracting data from PDF. After this you can export the data to excel format so that you can preserve the existing import format.
Look for information on "Scraping" the data from the PDF. I believe Adobe has some tools that allow you to do this for simple text but I've not used them.
Honestly though, I would try to do anything you can to get this data in a raw format from your vendor.