Comment

Comment by robinhowlett

Thanks for the links - agree about the (x,y,text) callout but other metadata like font size can be useful too.

Regexes have limitations but I was able them to leverage them sufficiently for PDFs from a single source.

I parsed over 1 million PDFs that had a fairly complex layout using Apache PDFBox and wrote about it here: https://www.robinhowlett.com/blog/2019/11/29/parsing-structu...

Discussion

Live from the official Hacker News API

A modern reader for Hacker News · SvelteKit + Skeleton