The most used open source software for this (and many other mime types) is tika: http://tika.apache.org/
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Van: Code for Libraries [CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] namens Bill Janssen [janssen_at_PARC.COM]
Verzonden: dinsdag 21 juni 2011 19:19
Aan: CODE4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Onderwerp: Re: [CODE4LIB] PDF->text extraction
Owen Stephens <owen_at_OSTEPHENS.COM> wrote:
> 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
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> We've tried iText but had issues with quality
> We moved to PDFBox but are having performance issues
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> Any other suggestions/experience?
UpLib uses xpdf's pdftotext, which works well. There's also code in
UpLib to find similarities between papers :-).
Bill
Received on Tue Jun 21 2011 - 13:38:45 EDT