PDF Text Scraping
PDF-Scrape is a small Application Programming Interface (API) and Command-Line Interface (CLI) to scrape texts from PDF documents. It is intended as the pre-processing step to find anchor positions by text fragments in a PDF document for a subsequent scraping those areas (in SVG or PNG format) of the actual PDF document with tools like pdftocairo(1).
$ npm install -g pdf-scrape
The Unix manual pages for the API and the CLI contain detailed usage information.
$ pdf-scrape sample.pdf
1,692.7686,328.5921,33.77,10,Content
1,451.4961,156.7606,0,0,
1,451.4961,156.7606,27.828,12,know
1,451.4961,191.4422,0,0,
1,451.4961,191.4422,57.91199999999999,12,understand
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