[iText-questions] iText help resources?

[Steve Garcia]

Hi,

Am trying to pull table data out of PDF files that contain non tabular text as well as the tables. I've successfully parsed the non tabled text using PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(), but the resulting text stream is empty at each table location.

I'm sure there's a way to do what I need to do, but I can't find documentation for itext. Suggestions for learning my way out of this delimma?

I've attached a sample PDF. The tables are in the latter part of the file.

Thanks,
Steve

[mkl]

Steve,

Post by Steve Garcia
Am trying to pull table data out of PDF files that contain non tabular
text as well as the tables. I've successfully parsed the non tabled text
using PdfTextExtractor.GetTextFromPage(), but the resulting text stream is
empty at each table location.

The text in the tables cannot be extracted without OCR.

The text in the tables is drawn using type 3 fonts with an ad-hoc encoding,
i.e. the first glyph drawn on the page is encoded as 0, the second
(differing) glyph as 1, ...

E.g. on page 11 the first text drawn is "B6 Summary (Official Form 6 -
Summary) (12/14)" and is encoded as 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 05, 06, 07, 08,
02, 09, 0A, 0B, 0B, 0C, 0D, 0C, 06, 0E, 02, 0F, ...

Furthermore the font has not mapping to Unicode.

Thus, automated text extraction without some kind of OCR is impossible.

Regards, Michael



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