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Re: Comparison word against pdf

by LanX (Saint)
on Apr 16, 2013 at 19:18 UTC ( [id://1028992]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Comparison word against pdf

If (!) it's possible to extract text¹ from PDF I'm using pdftohtml -xml and then I'm parsing the resulting xml by text position.

see Parsing PDFs by text position?

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

¹) some PDF formats use internal bitmaps for fonts such that only OCR would help.

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