Extract text from PDF (normal text)

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Re: Extract text from PDF (normal text) by Ratazong (Monsignor) on Oct 15, 2009 at 06:25 UTC
Hi! It's in the nature of PDF that text isn't represented by a sequence of letters, but that each letter may be positioned in the document separately; the order of the letters/words inside the .pdf-file has to be in no relation to the order the text appears on the screen. This makes parsing .pdf-files extremely difficult. I used a program called pdftext.exe (which works quite well extracting whole words (at least in most cases)) and post-processed the result with perl. maybe its worth a try for you also... HTH, Rata	[reply]
Re: Extract text from PDF (normal text) by leocharre (Priest) on Oct 15, 2009 at 20:01 UTC
Might want to try PDF::OCR2	[reply]
Re: Extract text from PDF (normal text) by xbmy (Friar) on Jun 09, 2010 at 21:33 UTC
Try this, it works well for me, enjoy! `use warnings; use CAM::PDF; use CAM::PDF::PageText; my $infile = "?.pdf"; #the pdf file you want to extract my $outfile = "out.txt"; open (OUTFILE, ">>out.txt") or die("cannot open file : $!"); my $pdf = CAM::PDF->new($infile) \|\| die "$CAM::PDF::errstr\n"; my $num = $pdf->numPages(); foreach my $p (1..$num) # p present for the page number { my $str = $pdf->getPageText($p); CAM::PDF->asciify(\$str); print OUTFILE "$str\n"; # write to file } close (OUTFILE);` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Extract text from PDF (normal text) by LanX (Saint) on Jun 10, 2010 at 11:03 UTC
maybe this helps (for linux) Re: How to invoke pdftotext and extract first line of text from PDF file? Cheers Rolf	[reply]


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