JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper

PDFLayoutTextStripper

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Converts a pdf file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original pdf. Useful to extract the content from a table in a pdf file for instance. This is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the Apache PDFBox library).

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Java · Apache-2.0 · Last push 2026-10-18

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git clone https://github.com/JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper.git

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