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Extraction

The extraction phase consists of reading the PDF document and gather text blocs, along with their dimensions and position within the document. Said blocs will go on to the classification phase to separate the body from the rest.

Method Description
pdfminer.v1 Text-based PDF extraction using PDFMiner

Text-based PDF

We provide a unique extractor architecture, that is based on the PDFMiner library. Be sure to have a look at their documentation, especially the part providing a bird's eye view of the PDF extraction process.

Image-based PDF

Image-based PDF documents require an OCR1 step, which is not natively supported by EDS-PDF. However, you can easily extend EDS-PDF by adding such a method to the registry, and using that extractor function in place of pdfminer.v1.

  1. Optical Character Recognition, or OCR, is the process of converting an image of text into a text format. ↩