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| From | Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.java.programmer |
| Subject | Re: Getting the Text from Image and PDF |
| Date | 2014-02-16 16:11 +0000 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <ldqnvb$svj$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <b2a78e28-7f59-4fc1-9739-2ef1317971e8@googlegroups.com> <slrnlfsb2t.ngg.avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> |
On Fri, 14 Feb 2014 14:46:53 +0000, Andreas Leitgeb wrote: > Jan <janreddy.sr@gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi friends, >> This is Jan, I am new to this Group. >> I have a requirement here. >> Is there any Java API for getting the Text data from an Image and >> PDF formats. > > For reading characters from graphical data, google "ocr" (and "java") > (the acronym means "optical character recognition") > I wonder what the OP means by "the Text data from an Image" because there are two possibilities: images of text, which would require OCR capabilities, or the text held in the EXIF tags found in many image types. It might help if this was clarified by the OP. > PDFs may contain the text directly (non-graphically), which would make > extraction much easier (and not require ocr). > I think something similar applies to PDFs: some are little more than an encapsulated page image, in which case you need OCR capabilities to extract it, but other PDFs contain blocks of text, possibly interspersed with embedded images. These are the ones that can be opened and modified by Office Libre and similar programs. Again, it would help if the OP could say what he is trying to do. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org |
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Getting the Text from Image and PDF Jan <janreddy.sr@gmail.com> - 2014-02-14 01:09 -0800
Re: Getting the Text from Image and PDF Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at> - 2014-02-14 14:46 +0000
Re: Getting the Text from Image and PDF Martin Gregorie <martin@address-in-sig.invalid> - 2014-02-16 16:11 +0000
Re: Getting the Text from Image and PDF Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2014-02-14 13:23 -0500
Re: Getting the Text from Image and PDF Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> - 2014-02-16 07:24 -0800
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