Dear Monks,

Do we have a routine/parser which extract texts from a PDF with all its information like (x, y) co-ordinates, font size, location, width etc.

e.g: lets take a pdf looks like below.
Name: XYZ  :                                            Date:dd/mm/yyyy
Address: QWER                                      Time:hh MM ss

and to extract something like below,

(x-start:10, x-end:40, y:-100) = Name:
(x-start:45, x-end:100, y:-100) = XYZ
(x-start:300, x-end:340, y:-100) = Date:
(x-start:345, x-end:400, y:-100) = dd/mm/yyyy

(x-start:10, x-end:50, y:-50) = Address:
(x-start:55, x-end:100, y:-50) = QWER
(x-start:300, x-end:340, y:-50) = Time:
(x-start:345, x-end:390, y:-50) = hh MM ss


Many Thanks,

In reply to PDF Parser by tosaiju

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