JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper

Converts a pdf file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original pdf. Useful to extract the content from a table in a pdf file for instance. This is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the Apache PDFBox library).

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• Show HN: PDFLayoutTextStripper – Converts PDF to text while keeping the layout (283 points, 92 comments, by jlink, 2017-02-25)