Extracting Text

Is there a way to Extract certain lines of text from a pdf file?

Sorry for the late reply.

What do you mean exactly by "retrieve CERTAIN lines of text" ? I mean, do you want to retrieve lines by their line number or lines that contain a certain text ? or do you have in mind another way of retrieving certain lines ?

Anyway, although the PdfToText class does not currently implement such a feature, I think this is a good idea and I will put that in a future version somewhere in June.

Could you just provide me with more détails on your exact needs so that I'll better address them ?

I have a similar need for extracting text from just the first page. Large PDF files can take a good amount of time to extract the entire text when all I need is the first page.

Thank you so much for this tool, it is great!!!

Thank you for your congratulations and thank you for using this tool !

You are right, extracting whole text contents from a pdf file can take time, because you need to interpret postscript-like drawing instructions and figure out what to do with them.

If you have a need only in extracting the first page contents, I would be happy if you could send me a BIG pdf file, so that I will be able to try to measure the performance of extracting only the first page vs extracting the whole page contents

You can send it to me directly at the following address :

[email protected]

With kind regards,
Christian.