Andreas Meier created PDFBOX-2998:
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Summary: Document layout analysis tools needed
Key: PDFBOX-2998
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2998
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Text extraction
Affects Versions: 2.0.0
Reporter: Andreas Meier
Priority: Blocker
PDFBox will need some document layout analysis tools to extract text correctly.
At the Moment the text of a document is extracted using the position of single
characters.
This may lead to wrong results, due to the format of the file
For a good extraction, layout analysis and segmentation has to be done in a
previous step.
https://code.google.com/p/lapdftext
Would be a good solution for a layout analysis tool, unfortunately, it heavily
relies on other libraries and needs Java 1.6 to run.
The layout analysis tool should segementate the file and return a list or set
of rectangles.
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