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Ajay95
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October 26, 2018
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Is there any Adobe's API/Library for object level extraction of text and table content from PDF?

  • October 26, 2018
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I need to extract text content (within paragraph or table) from a PDF. The extraction should be in the form of objects so that i can get the exact content from PDF. So, Am looking for API/library that can be integrated with my application. Suggest me ..

Thanks for your support.

Regards,

Ajay

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Test Screen Name
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October 26, 2018

There are no paragraphs or tables in most PDFs unless they are tagged. But you can get the actual PDF graphical objects. You you read the PDF Reference?

Doyou want this solution forbend users who ha e licensed Acrobat Pro only?

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    Zealous_Explorer0101
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    April 13, 2020

    I want to extract tables from pdf as json objects using OCR capability of adobe sdk. Is extraction of tables supported???

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    Test Screen Name
    Legend
    April 13, 2020

    There are no tables in PDF. Only text (with positions) and lines (with shapes). Advanced C++ programmers can write plug-ins to get this info. After that, it is entirely guesswork whether you have a table. (Exception: tagged files; this adds a meta layer describing tables but extraction is tough).

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