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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 ty
by mumblemumble 6y ago
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.
- tonitosou 6y agoaspose can convert pdf to html
- chaps 6y agoFirefox'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.
- rovr138 6y agoWhen 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.