On 09.06.2023 15:49, Robert Rodini wrote:
Do you want input (pdf) and output (text) files? --Bob
Yes, please upload them somewhere. (Don't attach)
Maybe your wish is impossible, because the extraction is either in the
sequence of the content stream, or in sort order (I didn't read your
text properly, I see it was 4am. Sorry). The problem is that the content
stream may not be in the visual order. It can be anything.
What you could also do is to use the ExtractTextByArea class. (if you
do, use screen coordinates like in java, not PDF coordinates)
Tilman
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From: Robert Rodini <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, June 9, 2023 9:48 AM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: extract utility request
Tilman,
The -sort flag does not produce the desired results. I need the output to
process the first column from top to bottom, then the middle column from top to
bottom, then the third column... Maybe there's no way to do this.
Thanks,
Bob Rodini
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From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 8, 2023 10:41 PM
To: [email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: extract utility request
-sort
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Tilman
On 08.06.2023 22:38, Robert Rodini wrote:
Hi,
I have successfully used PDFBox ExtractText utility to process PDFs produced by
a third-party. The text comes out of a multicolumn PDF in the left to right
order of the columns from top to bottom.
I now have to process PDFs produced by another third-party which also produces
a multicolumn PDF. This time the text comes out in an unpredictable order.
I've read the FAQ
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regarding "Why does the extracted text appear in the wrong sequence?"
I'd like to know if there is a command line switch (or something) that I can do
to get the text extracted in the correct order? Can I request an CLI switch to
the ExtractText utility? How to do this?
Thanks,
Bob Rodini
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