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Add support for pdf2xml format #57

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stweil opened this issue Jul 29, 2017 · 0 comments
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Add support for pdf2xml format #57

stweil opened this issue Jul 29, 2017 · 0 comments
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The program pdftohtml (part of Debian package poppler-utils) can extract images and text from a PDF file and write an XML file with the extracted information:

pdftohtml -c -hidden -xml INPUT_PDF OUTPUT_XML

Libraries like pdftabextract use that XML file for further processing.

By transforming ALTO or hOCR XML directly to the pdf2xml XML format, the time consuming intermediate PDF could be avoided.
@stweil stweil added the enhancement Any enhancement on the software itself (excluding new transformations) label Jul 29, 2017
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@zuphilip zuphilip added format Suggestions for new ocr formats to be included and removed enhancement Any enhancement on the software itself (excluding new transformations) labels Dec 30, 2019
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