Daniel Haglund wrote:
Hi.
I tried searching the archive but could not find a suitable answer.
That's because there is none.
I would like to know if it is possible to convert a simple (i.e. no
images) PDF-file to text? I have tried using a utility called
pdftotext. I does a pretty good job when invoked with the -layout
switch. That switch preserves the document layout. However pdftotext
produces garbage characters for some fonts it seems.
That's very normal. It's 'in the nature' of PDF.
PDF is a one-way process. The PDF is the end product.
You are not supposed to convert it to text.
Anyway, iText looks like a great product and maybe it can convert all
PDFs to text regardless of fonts used? If anyone would have some
sample code for this it would be even better.
You need an OCR tool.
br,
Bruno
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