Re: Build a PDF book index

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Re^2: Build a PDF book index by LanX (Saint) on Mar 17, 2018 at 12:03 UTC
Last time I tried it, `pdftohtml -xml` was more accurate. Update See also Parsing PDFs by text position? Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: Build a PDF book index by markong (Pilgrim) on Mar 17, 2018 at 16:09 UTC
Thank you, this tool extracted the text contents successfully, with apostrophes and (prolonged) dashes encoded as Latin-1!	[reply]
Re^4: Build a PDF book index by LanX (Saint) on Mar 17, 2018 at 16:51 UTC
You're welcome! Please note: The `-xml` switch gives you also the font-number and text- position in case you need to adjust characters like described. I had to do this in the past. Cheers Rolf _{(addicted to the Perl Programming Language and ☆☆☆☆ :) Wikisyntax for the Monastery}	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: Build a PDF book index by markong (Pilgrim) on Mar 18, 2018 at 23:23 UTC
Re^6: Build a PDF book index by LanX (Saint) on Mar 18, 2018 at 23:56 UTC