Field texts: there is no formal way to do this in the PDF specification.
Tables: try Tabula, they use heuristics
Strike-out text: one is a font, the other a vector graphic (or an
annotation). So it's not connected. One would have to write an algorithm.
Tilman
Am 27.08.2021 um 16:39 schrieb Peter Kronenberg:
* When extracting text from PDF files (no OCR), there doesn’t seem
to be any way to link the text that was filled in with the name of
the form field. For example, if there is a field marked ‘First
Name’ and the user fills that in, they likely appear on different
lines and different places, with no way to associate them. Is
there any way to do this?
* It’s also sometimes difficult to figure out how tables are
extracted. If I have a 2 column table, it seems to ignore the
tabular format and just extract text line by line. In this
example (ignoring the hand-written text), it gets extracted as
‘Comprehensive General Liability (including, if $2.0 million’
* Deleted, or strike-out text, is extracted with no indication
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