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Ben McCann commented on PDFBOX-2998:
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Further, lapdftext depends on pdfbox. It doesn't make sense for pdfbox to
depend on lapdftext since pdfbox is a lower level component used by the higher
level lapdftext library. I recommend you use lapdftext directly if you want
that functionality
Regarding your comment of lapdftext having too many dependencies - I just
removed 3 of them. You may be able to do further work in that direction if it
is important to you.
https://github.com/BMKEG/lapdftext/commit/434e0e6799aef40461fed925b0584ca08d0af928
> Document layout analysis tools needed
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>
> Key: PDFBOX-2998
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2998
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: New Feature
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Andreas Meier
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> PDFBox will need some document layout analysis tools to extract text
> correctly.
> At the Moment the text of a document is extracted using the position of
> single characters.
> This may lead to wrong results, due to the format of the file
> For a good extraction, layout analysis and segmentation has to be done in a
> previous step.
> https://code.google.com/p/lapdftext
> Would be a good solution for a layout analysis tool, unfortunately, it
> heavily relies on other libraries and needs Java 1.6 to run.
> The layout analysis tool should segementate the file and return a list or set
> of rectangles.
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