in reply to PDF Parser

My best bet is to use pdftohtml -xml and to parse the xml.

See also Parsing PDFs by text position?

Cheers Rolf

( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

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Re^2: PDF Parser
by wollmers (Scribe) on Mar 18, 2014 at 12:35 UTC

    Thx for the tip.

    Maybe I can solve one of my open problems this way: reconstruct the text of a book in Yiddish (accented Hebrew), where the accents are added by position. With pdftotext the accents appear at the end of the line.

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      Well while learning to read Yiddish is on my to-do list, I never thought about doing it via PDF ;)

      The C sources of pdftohtml are pretty compact calls to something like ghostscript (IIRC)¹ so porting it to Perl in order to have tighter control shouldn't be a problem.

      HTH :)

      Cheers Rolf

      ( addicted to the Perl Programming Language)

      update

      nope it's XPDF! :)

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