pdf-extraction

I want to extract text under specific headings from a pdf using python. For example, I have a pdf with headings Introduction,Summary,Contents. I need to extract only the text under the heading 'Summary'. How can I do this? This scenario is exactly what I am working on in my current company. We need to extract text lying under a heading. I'm personally using a rule based system i.e, using regex to identify all the numbered headings after reading the entire document line by line. Once I have the headings I enter the name of the heading for which I want to find the corresponding paragraph. This

I'm currently trying to automatically extract important keywords from a PDF file. I am able to get the text information out of the PDF document. But now I need to know, which font size and font family these keywords have. The following code I already have: Main public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException { String src = "SEM_081145.pdf"; PdfReader reader = new PdfReader(src); SemTextExtractionStrategy semTextExtractionStrategy = new SemTextExtractionStrategy(); PrintWriter out = new PrintWriter(new FileOutputStream(src + ".txt")); Rectangle rect = new Rectangle(70, 80, 490, 580);

I have a pdf file including form fields and need to export the data into a xml file AUTOMATICALLY . Here is a screen of a sample form I created for testing: Note: It works great exporting it MANUALLY using Acrobat Professional by clicking on Tools > Form > Export Form Data and finally chose xml extension for file output. This is the result I'm getting when I export it manually: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <fields> <first_name>John</first_name> <last_name>Doe</last_name> </fields> However, I need to automate it, e.g. with a python script , Java implementation or some command line

I have been trying to write a simple console application or PowerShell script to extract the text from a large number of PDF documents. There are several libraries and CLI tools that offer to do this, but it turns out that none are able to reliably identify document structure. In particular I am concerned with the recognition of text columns. Even the very expensive PDFLib TET tool frequently jumbles the content of two adjacent columns of text. It is frequently noted that the PDF format does not have any concept of columns, or even words. Several answers to similar questions on SO mention this