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Re:Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox by hbcondo714 on Friday July 07, 2017 @08:20PM (#14723320)
Impressive! Seems like you can't just use PDFBox out of the box (no pun intended) and need to write some custom code specific to the PDF itself per the chart-parser commits[1]

[1] https://github.com/robinhowlett/chart-parser/tree/master/src...

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Re:Show HN: Parsing horse racing charts with Apache PDFBox by robinhowlett on Friday July 07, 2017 @11:58PM (#14723997)
Author here; well, PDFBox is good for simple text stripping. If I wanted to print all the text on the PDF, that would be very straightforward and not much code. However, the PDF chart here is in essence a representation of structured data. I wanted to get the content in that format so that I could both serialize to JSON plus have an SDK to boot.
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