I'm using Docsplit (http://documentcloud.github.com/docsplit/), due to
its Ruby bindings. It includes OCR if it fails at extracting the text,
but it also requires you to install a bunch of other (open source)
software. Results seem fine to me so far.
Best,
Andreas
Am 21.06.2011 16:23, schrieb Owen Stephens:
> The CORE project at The Open University in the UK is doing some work on finding similarity between papers in institutional repositories (see http://core-project.kmi.open.ac.uk/ for more info). The first step in the process is extracting text from the (mainly) pdf documents harvested from repositories
>
> We've tried iText but had issues with quality
> We moved to PDFBox but are having performance issues
>
> Any other suggestions/experience?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Owen
>
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Received on Tue Jun 21 2011 - 10:36:15 EDT