Getting the Text from Image and PDF

[Jan]

Hi friends,

This is Jan, I am new to this Group.

I have a requirement here.

Is there any Java API for getting the Text data from an Image and PDF formats. Please let me know the same. If anything found, please suggest me regarding them.


Thanks && Regards..
Jan

 

[Andreas Leitgeb]

Hi friends,
This is Jan, I am new to this Group.
I have a requirement here.
Is there any Java API for getting the Text data from an Image
and PDF formats.

For reading characters from graphical data, google "ocr" (and "java")
(the acronym means "optical character recognition")

PDFs may contain the text directly (non-graphically), which would make
extraction much easier (and not require ocr).

 

[Jeff Higgins]

Hi friends,

This is Jan, I am new to this Group.

I have a requirement here.

Is there any Java API for getting the Text data from an Image and PDF formats. Please let me know the same. If anything found, please suggest me regarding them.

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[Roedy Green]

Is there any Java API for getting the Text data from an Image and PDF formats.
Pease let me know the same. If anything found, please suggest me regarding them

You could spawn a copy of Nuance Omnipage. It can OCR pdfs. You might
just look for PDF --> X converters.

See http://mindprod.com/pdf.html