iText can give you the font name, size, and location of all the text on
the page. Without PDF Structure, it is up to you to interpret that
information.
For a title, you might consider all the text in the largest font on the
first page to be the title. Such heuristics will be brittle. You could
refine or relax it in various ways to work better with your particular
PDFs, but at the end of the day, it will always be possible to find (or
create) a PDF that will break your heuristic.
A biography of Theodore Roosevelt might be entitled:
Speak softly and
Carry a Big Stick.
A reasonable heuristic could determine this title to be "Carry a Big
Stick". And it would be wrong.
--Mark Storer
Senior Software Engineer
Cardiff.com
import legalese.Disclaimer;
Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null;
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From: Balder [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, June 24, 2011 8:31 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [iText-questions] How to extract title / heading
from document contents
This depends on the PDF,
is the PDF Tagged? Then you might be able to find out what's
the title and heading. If it's not tagged good luck with guessing the
title and heading from the text found in the document.
On 24/06/2011 14:10, modie wrote:
Hi,
Sorry, I am new to iTextSharp and cannot find
documentation for it anyway,
other than this forum. I am looking to extract content
from a PDF document,
but I need to be able to understand the structure /
markup in the document.
I want to extract the heading / title for the document
which would generally
found on the first page. Any ideas how I would do this?
In html I would look
for the h1 or h2 tag?
PS - no, I dont want the title property of the document
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