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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by jlink on Saturday February 25, 2017 @07:56AM (#13731364)
During the development I compared my results with the ones of pdftotext utility and i obtained more or less similar results. The objective of my code was to have an equivalent tool easily embeddable in any java/android project and to learn more about apache pdfbox.
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by tyingq on Saturday February 25, 2017 @09:13AM (#13731648)
I imagine it's not an easy task guessing about proportionally spaced fonts, overlapping bounding boxes, columns, tables, wrapping, and so forth.
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Re:Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text whi... by jlink on Saturday February 25, 2017 @10:00AM (#13731818)
yes, definitely not easy but fortunately pdfbox offers a solid base to start with.
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