Parse PDF w/o images?

[mikey21211]

Is it possible to use the TEI and parse the full text but ignore the figures/images within the PDF? Thanks

[kermitt2]

Hello @mikey21211 Do you have a use case to understand what exactly you want to achieve or avoid?
I probably did not understood your goal, but you can always select the content of interest in the resulting XML/TEI and ignore some elements during the XML parsing... When processing a PDF, it makes sense to consider the possibility of figures to distinguish those elements/blocks from the the rest of the content body.

[mikey21211]

That makes sense what you're saying, and I think that the figures might be throwing off my result. Is there a way to ignore the figures? Or rather, strip away the images within my pdf before the parse?

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Hello @mikey21211 https://github.com/mikey21211 Do you have a use case to understand what exactly you want to achieve or avoid? I probably not understood your goal, but you can always select the content of interest in the resulting XML/TEI and ignore some elements during the XML parsing... When processing a PDF, it makes sense to consider the possibility of figures to distinguish those elements/blocks from the the rest of the content body.

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[nemobis]

Be careful what you wish for. :) You could first of all use pdfimages to see what "all images" means for your PDF. It might be more than you think.