Boheemen, Peter van <[email protected]> wrote: > The most used open source software for this (and many other mime > types) is tika: http://tika.apache.org/
While I'm sure it's widely used, it's also relatively immature. For PDF, it just punts to PDFBox (which is also relatively immature). The most widely used commercial package for extracting text from PDF, which does an excellent job, is probably TET, from pdflib.com. TET has lots of plug-ins for various contexts. Bill > ________________________________________ > Van: Code for Libraries [[email protected]] namens Bill Janssen > [[email protected]] > Verzonden: dinsdag 21 juni 2011 19:19 > Aan: [email protected] > Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF->text extraction > > Owen Stephens <[email protected]> wrote: > > > The CORE project at The Open University in the UK is doing some work on > > finding similarity between papers in institutional repositories (see > > http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/ for more info). The first step in the > > process is extracting text from the (mainly) pdf documents harvested from > > repositories > > > > We've tried iText but had issues with quality > > We moved to PDFBox but are having performance issues > > > > Any other suggestions/experience? > > UpLib uses xpdf's pdftotext, which works well. There's also code in > UpLib to find similarities between papers :-). > > Bill
