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Subject: Re: Problem extracting and processing text from a PDF
From: Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>
In-Reply-To: <CAH5ZNOq9hOUhV+H+9b6wgR2uEQ-TsfJAqxj16QnaW3Crzgg3RQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2017 22:02:36 +0200
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archived-at: Wed, 05 Apr 2017 20:02:49 -0000

Hi,

> Am 05.04.2017 um 21:46 schrieb David Patterson =
<patterd20850@gmail.com>:
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> Hello,
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> I=E2=80=99m trying to extract the text from a PDF that was saved from =
a Word
> document.
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> I am using Release 2.0.5 of pdfbox and pdfbox-tools, with Java 8 on a
> Windows machine.
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> I=E2=80=99m using the following code to get the text:
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> PDDocument pdDocument =3D PDDocument.load( pdfFile );
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> PDFTextStripper stripper =3D new PDFTextStripper();
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> String rawText =3D stripper.getText( pdDocument );
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> // end of code excerpt
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> I=E2=80=99m running the same code on a collection of files. Most work =
as expected.
> I can see the following in the text of the Table of Contents:
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> 5.15.1 ADDENDA.....................................................
> ................................. 1
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> 5.15.2 YOU ARE HERE ..............................
> .............................................. 2
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> 5.15.3 INTRODUCTION ..............................
> .............................................. 4
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> However, for two files, what I see is:
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> 5.16 xxx SYSTEM PROCEDURES
> ............................................................
> 1
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> ADDENDA......................................
> ......................................................... 1 5.16.1
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> YOU ARE HERE ..............................
> ........................................................
> 2 5.16.2
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> INTRODUCTION =
..........................................................................=
.............
> 4 5.16.3
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> Note: the outline numbers (5.16.1, etc.) are at the end of the line, =
not at
> the beginning.
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> A)  Is this a known, solvable problem?
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> B)  If not, is there a different way I can try to extract the data?
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> C)  If not, can I help debug/diagnose the problem? I cannot send the
> offending PDF file out of my system.


try PDFTextStripper.setSortByPosition(true);=20
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https://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/2.0.2/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/text/PDFTe=
xtStripper.html#setSortByPosition(boolean)

BR
Maruan


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> Thanks
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> Dave Patterson


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