What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
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What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
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Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#2Another site that breaks the browser's back navigation. Why do so many sites do this? Do they imagine they retain user attention for longer if they break navigation? It's pretty trivial to long-press the back button or just close the tab and not come back again to your site...
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#3I suppose the best approach is to combine OCR techniques while taking hints from the PDF structure.
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#4Another site that breaks the browser's back navigation. Why do so many sites do this? Do they imagine they retain user attention for longer if they break navigation? It's pretty trivial to long-press the back button or just close the tab and not come back again to your site...
This was done to impede automatic HTML text extraction :)
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#5The best technique for having a PDF with extractable data is to include the data within the PDF itself. That is what LibreOffice can do, it can slip in the entire original document within a PDF. Since a compressed file is quite small, the resulting files are not that much larger, and then you don't need to fuss with OCR or anything else.
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#6Another site that breaks the browser's back navigation. Why do so many sites do this? Do they imagine they retain user attention for longer if they break navigation? It's pretty trivial to long-press the back button or just close the tab and not come back again to your site...
I don't seem to have that issue
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#7I almost always have to resort to a dedicated parser for that specific pdf. I use it, for example, to injest invoice data from suppliers that won't send me plain text. Always end up with a parser per supplier. And copious amounts of sanity checking to notify me when they break/change the format.
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#8The relatively small company I work for makes me fill out some forms by hand, because they receive them from vendors as a PDF. So I print it out, sign it, and return it to my company by hand.
If someone could make a service that lets you upload a PDF that contains a form, and then let users fill out that form and e-sign it and collect the results, and then print them out all at once, it would be great.
It's not a billion dollar idea but there are a lot of little companies that would save a lot of time using it.
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#9As a meta point, it's really nice to see such a well-written, well-researched article that is obviously used as a form of lead generation for the company, and yet no in your face "call to actions" which try to stop you reading the article you came for and get out your wallet instead.
Re: What's so hard about PDF text extraction?
#10The relatively small company I work for makes me fill out some forms by hand, because they receive them from vendors as a PDF. So I print it out, sign it, and return it to my company by hand. If someone could make a service that lets you upload a PDF that contains a form, and then let users fill out that form and e-sign it and collect the results, and then print them out all at once, it would be great. It's not a bil…
Would DocuSign work? I’ve signed for lease documents several times that way.