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jlink on Feb 25, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to t...

During the development I compared my results with the ones of pdftotext utility and i obtained more or less similar results. The objective of my code was to have an equivalent tool easily embeddable in any java/android project and to learn more about apache pdfbox.

tyingq on Feb 25, 2017 [–]

I imagine it's not an easy task guessing about proportionally spaced fonts, overlapping bounding boxes, columns, tables, wrapping, and so forth.

jlink on Feb 25, 2017 | [–]

yes, definitely not easy but fortunately pdfbox offers a solid base to start with.

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