Re:Show HN: an API to extract text from a PDF
by trez on Sunday June 30, 2013 @02:39PM
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we have our own parser for more complicated task and use xpdf when speed is key because it's much faster.
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I am writing something similar for a client. He needs data in tables extracted from the PDF.
Which language are you using?
I wrote two scripts, one using python and pdftotext and another using ruby pdf-reader, the ruby one gives each line of the PDF one by one which is good for extraction.