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Johannes Koch commented on PDFBOX-521:
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Mel wrote:
> How about "PDFStructuredTextStripper" ? It does try to retain the
> page/article structure of the document, as well as extracting the
> paragraphs.
With this name someone could expect some tool extracting content together
according to the logical structure (PDF 1.7 section 14.7).
> Improved PDF Text Extraction that notes paragraph boundaries
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-521
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-521
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Parsing
> Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
> Environment: all
> Reporter: Mel Martinez
> Attachments: pdftextstripper2.zip
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> The current behavior of the org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper class is
> to ignore paragraph demarcation in the text. It basically just renders each
> line of text as it discovers it, separating each line equally with the same
> line separator.
> This makes it difficult to identify paragraph (or even page) starts and stops
> in the extracted text. This is often necessary for text processing that
> needs to work with logical 'chunks' of text. Further, rendering into other
> formats (such as HTML or XML) is facilitated by resolving the document into
> more discrete logical text chunks.
> The request here is for improved text extraction that provides more discrete
> instrumentation of the parsing, allowing one to identify / tag paragraph
> starts and stops.
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