Parsing pdf files

[Arun Kumar]

hello all,
Does anyone know a good pdf parser that retains formatting
after its extracted text? I used PDF::Reader, but when you extract text you
just get a stream of characters that are not at all intelligible. When I
copy a pdf contents from a pdf reader to Gedit text editor in linux it
retains its format. I'm looking for something like that.

Thanks for any help.

regards,
Arun Kumar M S


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[Gregory Brown]

hello all,
=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 Does anyone know a good pdf parser that r= etains formatting
after its extracted text? I used PDF::Reader, but when you extract text y= ou
just get a stream of characters that are not at all intelligible. When I
copy a pdf contents from a pdf reader to Gedit text editor in linux it
retains its format. I'm looking for something like that.

This doesn't exist in Ruby, unfortunately.

-greg

 

[Arun Kumar]

That's really very sad

This doesn't exist in Ruby, unfortunately.

-greg

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[Gregory Brown]

That's really very sad

Looks like you better roll up your sleeves

 

[Arun Kumar]

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[Hannes Wyss]

Arun,

there is another ruby pdf-extractor: http://scm.ywesee.com/?p=3Drpdf2txt;a=
=3Dsummary

However, it's largely undocumented, slow, fragile, and its column
detection algorithm is basic at best. If that does not faze you, give
it a try and contact me if you have questions. Look at the included
commandline-tool in ./bin/rpdf2txt for an example.

cheers,
Hannes

hello all,
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a good pdf parser that retains formatting

after its extracted text? I used PDF::Reader, but when you extract text y= ou
just get a stream of characters that are not at all intelligible. When I
copy a pdf contents from a pdf reader to Gedit text editor in linux it
retains its format. I'm looking for something like that.

Thanks for any help.

regards,
Arun Kumar M S

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[Erik Terpstra]

You can use http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net or use my Ruby wrapper for
this tool:

http://github.com/eterps/pdf-struct/tree/master

 

[Gregory Brown]

You can use http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net or use my Ruby wrapper for
this tool:

http://github.com/eterps/pdf-struct/tree/master

Very interesting, thanks for posting this.

-greg