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Yes, PDFMiner in Python https://github.com/euske/pdfminer https://github.com/euske/pdfminer Apache PDFBox in Java https://pdfbox.apache.org https://pdfbox.apac
by espeed 10y ago
Yes, PDFMiner in Python https://github.com/euske/pdfminer https://github.com/euske/pdfminer
Apache PDFBox in Java https://pdfbox.apache.org https://pdfbox.apache.org
Previous discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327493 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11327493
For a list of others, see http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2016/04/19/pdf-tools-extract-text-and-data-from-pdfs.html http://okfnlabs.org/blog/2016/04/19/pdf-tools-extract-text-a...
- chmaynard 10y agoAccording to the PDFMiner site, pdf2txt.py cannot recognize text drawn as images that would require optical character recognition. I'm interested in software that combines OCR with some sort of math notation rendering engine.
- espeed 10y agoFor handwritten character recognition, see: https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/mnist/beginners/ https://www.tensorflow.org/tutorials/mnist/beginners/ (also google "tensorflow ocr") http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ http://yann.lecun.com/exdb/mnist/ CROHME: Competition on Recognition of Online Handwritten Mathematical Expressions http://www.isical.ac.in/~crohme/ http://www.isical.ac.in/~crohme/ Closed-sourced API: http://mathpix.com http://mathpix.com https://photomath.net/en/ https://photomath.net/en/ Best off-the-shelf OCR (originally developed by HP, now Google): https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki https://github.com/tesseract-ocr/tesseract/wiki Two Clojure talks... Machine Learning Live - Mike Anderson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ1qgCr09j8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJ1qgCr09j8 Adventures in Understanding Documents - Scott Tuddenham https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94NjRg8zoCA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=94NjRg8zoCA