Add layout option to keep layout during text extraction #132
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It passed -layout option to pdftotext.
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@knowtheory any news on this one? |
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I need this feature too. Is there anybody here? |
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Unfortunately it seems like this project is dead |
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Well that's one way to get my attention (which i probably shouldn't encourage). Thank you very much for the commit and the extraction here :) |
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@knowtheory That was a pleasant surprise 😄 Thank you! |
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You're welcome! Happy to talk about other issues over the short term, and things to tackle too :) |
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Do you have something in mind? 🤔 Btw, could you release new version to rubygems? It'll be great to get rid of the ugly |
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It allows to preserve layout of pdf in text.
I noticed that
pdftotextproduces better results with-layoutoption with some pdf files. (e.g. table of contents look a lot better and closer to the original markup)At first, I implemented passing of random options to
pdftotextcommand, but later realised that I only need it for-layoutoption.