Not reliably, no, because the PDF is not tagged. Together with text extraction you might be able to come up with some heuristics to identify footnotes. Like looking for a pattern "(<number>) " at the beginning of a paragraph, for example. HTH
On 26.10.2011 19:52:46 Hesham G. wrote: > May be my question was not clear enough ... I meant is there a way to know > that the current extracted part from the PDF page is the footnote section ? > > > Best regards , > Hesham > > > --------------------------------------------- > Included message : > > > I seee PDFBox (current trunk) extracting the footnote text correctly > > from this PDF. (I just ran the org.apache.pdfbox.ExtractText tool). > > > > Mike McCandless > > > > http://blog.mikemccandless.com > > > > On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 8:25 AM, Hesham G. <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello , > >> > >> Is there a way to detect the footnotes section in a PDF file ? > >> Here is a sample 2-pages PDF with footnotes: > >> http://www.4shared.com/document/Q03u9SMc/pdf_with_footnotes.html > >> > >> > >> Best regards , > >> Hesham > >> > > Jeremias Maerki
