Closed michamilz closed 7 years ago
Currently simply because tika has a http-API available. We're using http://givemetext.okfnlabs.org as a hosted tika instance. I also experimented with pdftotext/pdftohtml, especially for the table recognition (see #96), but tika also includes tesseract for OCR-ing the scanned pdfs we get from some federal states.
Thank you. Good to know this service.
For a similar website i use a multistep extraction. First try is always pdftotext. If pdftotext returns an empty textstring i run tesseract. Files from Word and Excel were converted using uniconv before running pdftotext. This works good for almost all files.
Could you please explain why you choose tika for text extraction from pdf files. pdftotext is a lot faster.