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Ask HN: Is there a ready-to-go solution to parse documents content?

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Hey there

I'm looking for a ready-to-go solution to parse documents (such as pdf, docx, pptx and others). By 'parse' I mean text extraction, including OCR if needed. I know about Tika and tried it already, but are there any more reliable alternatives, maybe based on Tika? I'd like to interact with it via REST API.

Thnx

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ElasticSearch has support for ingesting a bunch of document formats if you're already using it / looking at using it in your stack: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/plugins/5.x/in...

Elastic is using Tika.

Yep Tika is pretty much the choice in this situation. It's not perfect but it's good enough for most purposes.

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Re: Ask HN: Is there a ready-to-go solution to parse documents content?

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I use 'poppler' or Apache's PDFBox for text extraction from PDF. They both can write HTML or their own XML format. In addition, they keep the absolute positioning of the layout.

For XML files, there is XSL-T. A simple run with the default template will give you all strings in the document, if you really want just the paragraph text, you will need to find/create an XSL transform.

None of these is ready to go, but very close to it. Epecially in the case of poppler and pdfbox.

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