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WZBSocialScienceCenter / pdftabextract

A set of tools for extracting tables from PDF files helping to do data mining on (OCR-processed) scanned documents.
https://datascience.blog.wzb.eu/2017/02/16/data-mining-ocr-pdfs-using-pdftabextract-to-liberate-tabular-data-from-scanned-documents/
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No text boxes in the output #3

Closed aborruso closed 7 years ago

aborruso commented 7 years ago

Hi, when I run pdftohtml -c -hidden -xml a.pdf a.pdf.xml in this file I have no text boxes in the output, but only the below infos.

Is it normal? What's wrong in my command?

Thank you

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE pdf2xml SYSTEM "pdf2xml.dtd">

<pdf2xml producer="poppler" version="0.41.0">
<page number="1" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="892" width="1262">
<image top="0" left="0" width="1263" height="893" src="a.pdf-1_1.jpg"/>
</page>
<page number="2" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="892" width="1262">
<image top="0" left="0" width="1263" height="893" src="a.pdf-2_1.jpg"/>
</page>
<page number="3" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="892" width="1262">
<image top="0" left="0" width="1263" height="893" src="a.pdf-3_1.jpg"/>
</page>
<page number="4" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="892" width="1262">
<image top="0" left="0" width="1263" height="893" src="a.pdf-4_1.jpg"/>
</page>
<page number="5" position="absolute" top="0" left="0" height="892" width="1262">
<image top="0" left="0" width="1263" height="893" src="a.pdf-5_1.jpg"/>
</page>
</pdf2xml>
aborruso commented 7 years ago

Ok I have read

The page has been scanned and processed with Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

My fault