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Is there a way to extract PDF text from an existing PDF file? I have some PDF Invoices that I need to read the text out of. Format doesn't really matter, just need the text. I ran the samples but didn't see anything where that was available.
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Hi,
Thanks for posting in the forum. Unfortunately we do not have this feature. Reading text from a PDF is only technically possible for some PDF files as the only thing guaranteed to exist in a PDF file are "painting" instructions (glyphs) on how to "paint" those text. The actual mapping between the glyphs and text may or may not exist in the PDF file. If such information does not exist, then it is not possible to extract the actual text from the PDF file (unless using an OCR).
Thanks!
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