The app will change a PDF into text so you can have your way with it.
You can get the program by downloading the file listed below.
https://github.com/Cabji/flip-gui/blob/8ef9df2c084397fa329c3915aa31cc79e3ee22df/flip-gui-0.1.zip
This is a project to make the flip-cpp project into a GUI program.
C++ with wxWidgets, UI being built using wxFormBuilder. The aim is to write cross-platform code.
flip-gui (or just, Flip) allow you to input a PDF file, run it through some processing, and extract whatever data you want from the PDF file in plain text format usually this would be in comma separated value (CSV) format. Currently (Oct 2024) the project has the core features that it command line counter part has excluding the planned features listed below in Project Plans.
Flip, by itself is not very useful unless you have a template file configured for the PDF you are processing. I have ranted on about the details of making templates over in the flip (PHP) project repo right here on my github, so go check that out if you want to know more. When this project reaches a mature enough stage I will possibly make some videos detailing the best ways to create templates.
Use CMake. currently the provided CMake and config files are for my person machine which is Windows 11, using msys2 UCRT64 for the C++ STL, and wWidgets built on the local machine. If you want to build this project, you'll have to alter the CMakeLists.txt file to point to where the relevant wxWidgets folders for your platform are and configure VSCode Cmake addon to know where needed includes are.
My preferred method for 'installing' 3rd party libraries is:
1. Install via pacman in msys2 UCRT64 terminal if possible OR
2. Download library sources and build locally
2a. 'Install' the library to C:/dev/cpp - NOT to its own random folder somewhere. Installing to a C++ development root location will put all of your locally built 3rd party library files into a development structure which makes it very easy to use into the future.
Anything you install via MSYS2 pacman should get found by VSCode when you select the GCC kit for the project, and my CMakeLists.txt file is designed so that you point it to your development root folder and it should find any additionaly libraries you're using that you've built and installed locally.
wxWidgets has a few additional options that might need to be checked before you build so just work your way down the CMakeLists.txt file until it says you don't need to edit anything further down and adjust settings as/if needed.
Here are some features I'd like to add eventually:
✔ Template Manager: add, remove, edit & validate template files
✔ Core PDF processing functionality (copy & paste from flip-cpp)
✔ Side-by-side Data Comparison: view the processed data side by side at each step of processing
✔ Stepped Data Processing: view the processed data after each regex is applied (filthy feature creep is happening)
✔ Output: output to CSV file on disk
✔ Automation Support: add command line switches & flip-gui "automation" configuration support for fully automated PDF processing
- Advanced Output: configurable output to allow user to define columns
- Advanced Output: output into various formats locally (saved to file on disk), and maybe even output directly to networked locations/servers
- Possible bug in Data Viewer when reusing it multiple times (need to reproduce and accurately describe) (Data Viewer)