Parsing with unknown text. Help me resolve

aarjiontech commented 7 months ago

PHP Version: 7.4
PDFParser Version: 2.9.0

Description:

PDF input

Cannot provide pdf since its confidential

Expected output & actual output

Need to extract table from it

Code

$parser = new \Smalot\PdfParser\Parser();

// Source PDF file to extract text $file = "tables 2024.pdf";

// Parse pdf file using Parser library //$pdf = $parser->parseFile($file);

$pdf = $parser->parseContent(file_get_contents($file));

// Extract text from PDF //$text = $pdf->getText(); $text = $pdf->getPages()[2]->getText(); // Add line break $pdfText = nl2br($text);

/$ascii_decoded = mb_convert_encoding($pdfText, 'UTF-8', 'ASCII'); $ansi_decoded = mb_convert_encoding($ascii_decoded, 'UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1'); $decode1252 = mb_convert_encoding($ansi_decoded, 'UTF-8', 'Windows-1252'); $utf8_decode = utf8_decode($decode1252);/

$encodings = ['UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1', 'Windows-1252', 'Windows-1251', 'ISO-8859-15']; $decodedText = $pdfText; foreach ($encodings as $encoding) { $decodedText = mb_convert_encoding($decodedText, 'UTF-8', $encoding); if ($decodedText) { // If decoding is successful, break the loop //break; } } $utf8_decode = utf8_decode($decodedText);

print_r($utf8_decode);

The output.. not working ZZZFDOFKRLFHFRP 5HJXODWRU\B6WDWXVBB

%HQHILWV3ODQVQRWHGDVГѓвЂљГ‚Ві3HQGLQJ$SSURYDOГѓвЂљГ‚ВґKDYHEHHQILOHGZLWKWKH&DOLIRUQLDUHJXODWLQJVWDWHDJHQFLHVDQGDUHSHQGLQJ DSSURYDOZLWKWKRVHVWDWHDJHQFLHV PLATINUM TIER %HQHILW3ODQ+HDOWK3ODQ1HWZRUN1DPH 5HJXODWRU\6WDWXV

GreyWyvern commented 7 months ago

PdfParser should output UTF-8 encoded text by default, so I'm not sure what all your mb_converts and utf8_decodes after the getText() are doing.

What's the value of $text right after the getText() ?

aarjiontech commented 7 months ago

PdfParser should output UTF-8 encoded text by default, so I'm not sure what all your mb_converts and utf8_decodes after the getText() are doing.

What's the value of $text right after the getText() ?

$textright after thegetText() -> same value.... output not changed..

k00ni commented 7 months ago

We need to see at least some of the original output of getText(). It has the same value of what?

aarjiontech commented 7 months ago

We need to see at least some of the original output of getText(). It has the same value of what?

```

$pdf = $parser->parseFile($pdfFilePath); $pages = $pdf->getPages(); $text = $pdf->getPages()[2]->getText(); print_r($text);



The printed i got from browser as below,
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Hope this helps.. thanks

aarjiontech commented 7 months ago

test1.pdf for the above pdf.. getText() has return empty Please help me If possible, i wish to return this in a table format.. so i can generate a csv/excel

GreyWyvern commented 7 months ago

test1.pdf for the above pdf.. getText() has return empty

There is no readable / editable text in the document; it is a scanned image. OCR would be required to extract the text.

aarjiontech commented 7 months ago

test1.pdf for the above pdf.. getText() has return empty

There is no readable / editable text in the document; it is a scanned image. OCR would be required to extract the text.

Any idea to distinguish both readable text and images and do ocr extraction.. and do we have any option for ocr extraction with smalot library.. if not please help me on any ocr library for that...

smalot / pdfparser