Hi Raimi,
I tried -sort parameter and it is working very well !!

Now, given that iText doesn't extract text, I will use PDFBox.

Thanks alot. 


Raimi Rufai wrote:
> 
> 
>> I have already tried PDFBox .. it is working fine but the 
>> extracted text is
>> not with the same order ... I want to try another libraries to see 
>> if I can have a better quality...
>> 
> 
> Did you try with -sort option? That way, you should get the text in the
> correct order.
> 
>> I wonder, why iText doesn't include the feature of extracting Text ..?
>> 
> 
> Because it's hard. You'll find other reasons in the iText book (Section
> 18.2).
> 
> Raimi
> 
>> Regards,
>> 
>> 
>> Bruno Lowagie (iText) wrote:
>> > 
>> > Ahmed Hashim wrote:
>> >> Hi
>> >> I want to know if I can extract the text from a PDF file using 
>> iText. If 
>> >> there is a sample please send a link to me
>> > 
>> > That sounds more like a job for PdfBox.
>> > br,
>> > Bruno
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