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Topic: text extraction

Posted By: rajeev
Subject: text extraction
Date Posted: 10 Nov 10 at 2:49PM

Hi,

I used php to successfully read the lines from pdf file of a newspaper. The problem is that it reads char by char or word by word only. I wish to read the file paragraph by paragraph. any help for this?

Also i could extract images from pdf, but i also need the coordinates where the image was placed.

any help will be appreciated..

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 10 Nov 10 at 7:32PM

Hi!

With QuickPDF you can do textextraction from pdf word by word, string by string and/or page by page. Have a look in the online reference accessable via www.quickpdf.org.

The image coordinates you can get via the relevant mediaboxes. Read the pdf with QuickPDF, then decryption, then reading the real content (like looking into pdf via notepad).

Cheers and welcome here,
Ingo