Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit

Re:Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit by mumblemumble on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:33AM (#24471371)

Tika's PDF text extraction is fine if you're just trying to get searchable text. Which is what it's made for: Slurping doucments into Lucene. Fulltext search typically isn't terribly sensitive to getting the order of words right, and is even less sensitive to getting the formatting right.

If you're trying to get something fit for consumption by human (including via a screen reader) or an NLP pipeline, though, all the problems discussed in that FilingDB article still apply.

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Re:Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit by tonitosou on Monday September 14, 2020 @11:51AM (#24471587)

aspose can convert pdf to html

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Re:Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit by chaps on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:31PM (#24472753)

Firefox's PDF reader does the same. A few years back, I wrote wrote a pdf to csv converter with selenium -- it worked surprisingly well! Though, after I finished I found tabula and the code became immediately useless, hah.

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Re:Apache Tika – a content analysis toolkit by rovr138 on Monday September 14, 2020 @01:44PM (#24472909)

When that happens to me, it's due to a keyword I hadn't thought of looking for. Then, while building the project, it came to me.

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