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Re: Getting the Text from Image and PDF

From Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Newsgroups comp.lang.java.programmer
Subject Re: Getting the Text from Image and PDF
Date 2014-02-14 14:46 +0000
Organization A noiseless patient Spider
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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")

PDFs may contain the text directly (non-graphically), which would make
extraction much easier (and not require ocr).

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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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