I tried using PDFBox but its not giving the text in a structured manner. Other APIs are commercial. Please do let me know if there is any other open source API for this activity.
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Ajay
Ulf Dittmer
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JPedal has an open source version as well as a commercial one. But its results will be unstructured text as well.
If you don't have a budget, then you'll need to substitute programming effort for it - check out PDFRenderer. It can display PDFs, so obviously it knows how to access information within them in a structured way. Since its open source, you can find out how it does that.
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Hi,
I have tried with 2-3 API where I'm getting only a scattered test. My PDF is having only tables. I can manupulate the PDFs if needed before its creation, if we can have any functionality in java to get an ordered csv or text format out of the pdf.
Please suggest.
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Ajay
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As I said in both previous posts, unstructured text is all you'll get from the existing libraries. You may have to resort to the PDFRenderer approach I suggested if you are prepared to spend time on this, or maybe there are commercial libraries if you prefer to spend money instead.
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Hi,
Can you please let me know which are the commercial libraries which are avaliable? Will we be able to get an evaluation copy to test it to make sure that we will get the preffered output.
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Ajay
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Hi,
I have found a new API ICEPdf which is working perfectly for my requirements. This is giving a structured output as I need.
Thanks a lot for all the help and guidance.
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Ajay Joseph
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Hi Ajay,
I have same requirement, can you please send me code you used for this task.
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