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Maruan Sahyoun commented on PDFBOX-2998:
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as written above we can always change the title which I'm gonna do so it's not
misleading.
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line finding
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this was triggered as we mix text from different lines into one when doing text
extraction e.g. for the wikipedia example in PDFBOX-2252 maybe it should have
been called 'proper text to line matching'.
> Document layout analysis tools needed
> -------------------------------------
>
> 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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