hi,
I've been looking for a tool to convert pdf > txt so a miner bot can
track data of interest.
The text data in the pdf files is formatted by columns, which is
important for parsing the text. I'm dealing with about 1000 pdf files
so I'd really like to avoid converting them by hand.
The script tools I've tried so far all mangle the formatting. Pdfedit
is the only tool I've found so far that respects whitespace, and it does
what I want, except version 0.4.5 is clipping lines, and I can't get
pdf_to_text to compile under 0.4.1.
A specimen pdf file I'm having a problem with is here:
http://tinyurl.com/29a4xhw
if I use v 0.4.1 and save as text it works fine
if I use pdf_to_text (v 0.4.5) the text is clipped around column 117
and saving as text from the 0.4.5 gui gives the same clipped results
attached is a part of the diff file comparing the output from 0.4.1 and
0.4.5
I went to 0.4.5 specifically to use the stand alone tool pdf_to_text.
I'm wondering if you have any insight/fix/workaround for this.
thanks,
JE
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