[Corpora-List] PDF Conversion

[Piao, Songlin]

Hi,

We tested the MultiValent tool for extracting text from pdf files and found it is working pretty well. 

For identifying figures and tables etc, you need to add a post processor using some heuristic algorithms. We tried some algorithms for tables and figures and we got a reasonably good result.

Scott Piao
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Computing Department
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4WA
UK





-----Original Message-----
From: owner-corpora at lists.uib.no [mailto:owner-corpora at lists.uib.no] On Behalf Of Ken Litkowski
Sent: 28 March 2006 16:35
To: corpora at hd.uib.no
Subject: [Corpora-List] PDF Conversion

Is anyone aware of free software that will process PDF documents into text streams?  There is a PDF2HTML (with an XML option) that will create page-centric versions, but this does not really distinguish text from format.  I want to ignore (or be able to treat separately) such things as headers, footnotes, tables, figures, and equations.  (Note that even Google retains the page-centric view.)

Thanks,
	Ken
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