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in Java, there are Apache PDFBox and jPDFText. the nature of pdf make it very difficult to extract it correctly and consistently.
by iworkforthem 16y ago
in Java, there are Apache PDFBox and jPDFText. the nature of pdf make it very difficult to extract it correctly and consistently.
- kenver 16y agoThanks for your reply. We're evaluating PdfTextStream at the moment. We want to try a few though to see which works best for the types of document we are going to be using.
- iworkforthem 16y agopast experience shown that data in XML and CSV formats are the easiest to extract and make sense from.
- whiskers 16y agoPast experience shows that if someone explicitly asks for information about extracting text from PDFs that their source material is probably in PDF format.