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Maruan Sahyoun updated PDFBOX-2998:
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Description:
PDFBox will need some -document layout analysis tools- enhancement to the
current text extraction 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.
There are good tools such as https://code.google.com/p/lapdftext which we
could use to compare our current output.
Possible enhancements are
- enhance matching of text to a certain line i.e. don't mix up text from
different lines
- better handling of rotated text
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was:
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.
> Enhance the text extraction capabilities
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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
>
> PDFBox will need some -document layout analysis tools- enhancement to the
> current text extraction 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.
> There are good tools such as https://code.google.com/p/lapdftext which we
> could use to compare our current output.
> Possible enhancements are
> - enhance matching of text to a certain line i.e. don't mix up text from
> different lines
> - better handling of rotated text
> -
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