Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text while keeping the layout

Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by rodw on Friday February 24, 2017 @09:15PM (#13729592)

For what it's worth, here's a service that does that https://documentalchemy.com/demo/pdf2txt (and more: https://documentalchemy.com/demo)

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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by flexie on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:04AM (#13731829)

Just tried the demos on this website.

I tried to extract text from a pdf that already has searchable text, which can be copy-pasted. This should be the easiest task of all but it made mistakes in every second word.

Then I asked the website to make a pdf into a word-file. It just inserted the whole pdf as a picture in word.

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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by rodw on Saturday February 25, 2017 @11:37AM (#13732281)

> Then I asked the website to make a pdf into a word-file. It just inserted the whole pdf as a picture in word.

Really? I'm pretty sure that's not the way this works.

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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by jlink on Saturday February 25, 2017 @08:01AM (#13731378)

thanks for sharing this one, didn't know it.

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