PDFLayoutTextStripper | pdf file into a text file | Document Editor library
kandi X-RAY | PDFLayoutTextStripper Summary
kandi X-RAY | PDFLayoutTextStripper Summary
Converts a PDF file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original PDF. Useful to extract the content from a table or a form in a PDF file. PDFLayoutTextStripper is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the Apache PDFBox library).
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- Write page
- Get number of new lines from previous text position
- Returns the index of the given character
- Iterate through text and create new lines
- Processes a single page
- Set the current page width
- Complete the line with spaces
- Gets the line length
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I want to extract text from the PDF files but the layout of text in the PDF should be maintained, like the images below. Images show results from the [github.com/JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper]. I tried the below code but it doesn't maintain the Layout. I want get results exactly the same way as shown in the images by using any of the Python libraries like PyPDF2, PDFPlumber, PDFminer etc. I tried all these libraries but didn't get the desired results. I need help in extracting the text from the PDF file exactly as is shown in the images.
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Answered 2021-Jul-17 at 09:24You can preserve layout/indentation using PDFtotext package.
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Install PDFLayoutTextStripper
You can use PDFLayoutTextStripper like any standard Java library. Please include the the jar files in your classpath. You can also use any IDE and you can run and debug the PDFLayoutTextStripper component as you would do with any other Java program. Best practice is to use a build tool that supports dependency management such as Maven or Gradle. For Maven installation, please refer maven.apache.org. For Gradle installation, please refer gradle.org .
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