Ask HN: Good tools for text extraction from PDF

3 pointslucasrp2 comments

Hi guys,

I'm needing a tool that allows me to convert PDF to html files. Since I work with public documents, sometimes the layout from the pdf can be pretty nasty (i've attached some links at the end of this post).

We have a in house soluction forked several years ago from Apache pdfBox. After a while we realized that forking a open source solution isnt the best answer, but kept on going because it worked.

Does anyone have sugestions? We are willing to contribute to the open source project we choose :)

Many thanks!

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s226/sh/17b87c1f-8f18-4b23-96ac-a9fbc2ac8502/ea5618043f3a9c818071bd93df9f74c3

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