PDF extraction

Apache Tika PDF support in JPedal

JPedal now contains an Apache Tika Parser which can parse and extract unstructured text from PDF files. How to use an Apache Tika PDF...
Jacob Collins
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Understanding the PDF file format – Text, shapes and…

I have been looking at an issue for a potential client recently which required the generation of different views of the page. This is...
Mark Stephens
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PDF mystery – what is the correct value for…

I came across an interesting issue with PDF Text fields while debugging a file this week. We were sent a 2 page document created...
Chris Wade
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What text format and style information is in a…

Because PDF is very much an output and display format it does not contain much text formatting information such as paragraph breaks and spaces...
Mark Stephens
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