From: Arun Kumar <arun.einstein@...>
Date: 2009-08-23T19:46:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Parsing pdf files

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hello Alex,
Thank you. But I would like to point out that its not very accurate in
maintaining the layout. I already tried it out. you can copy a pdf file fro=
m
evince to gedit, you will get a better accuracy of layout. What escapes me
is how to do it programatically :)

cheers & regards,
Arun

On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 3:49 PM, Axel Etzold <AEtzold@gmx.de> wrote:

> Dear Arun,
>
> there is a command-line tool pdftotext, which you can use with encoding
> specifications and also with a "-layout" option, which will preserve
> line breaks.
> The list of possible encodings
>
> pdftotext -listenc
>
> does not include iscii-1988, so probably, you'll be out of luck
> if the original document is not in Unicode (maybe you can use iconv
> on the result of pdftotext).
>
> I found a utf-8 encoded web page in Hindi, printed it to a pdf file, used
> pdftotext on it, and opened it in the SciTE editor, specifying the
> encoding as UTF-8. Most of the symbols are recognized correctly,
> but some are not ...(vowels? combinations of letters?)
>
> I'm sending the screenshot as an attachment to your email address.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Axel
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