RE: [Corpora-List] PDF Conversion

From: Piao, Songlin (s.piao@lancaster.ac.uk)
Date: Wed Mar 29 2006 - 16:16:46 MET DST

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    Hi,

    We tested the MultiValent tool for extracting text from pdf files and found it is working pretty well.

    For identifying figures and tables etc, you need to add a post processor using some heuristic algorithms. We tried some algorithms for tables and figures and we got a reasonably good result.

    Scott Piao
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    Computing Department
    Lancaster University
    Lancaster LA1 4WA
    UK

    -----Original Message-----
    From: owner-corpora@lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora@lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Ken Litkowski
    Sent: 28 March 2006 16:35
    To: corpora@hd.uib.no
    Subject: [Corpora-List] PDF Conversion

    Is anyone aware of free software that will process PDF documents into text streams? There is a PDF2HTML (with an XML option) that will create page-centric versions, but this does not really distinguish text from format. I want to ignore (or be able to treat separately) such things as headers, footnotes, tables, figures, and equations. (Note that even Google retains the page-centric view.)

    Thanks,
            Ken 

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