Comment by authorfly

I have great news I wish someone delivered to me when I was in your shoes - try "GROBID". It parses papers into objects with abstract/body/figures! It will help you out a great deal. It is designed for papers and can extract the text almost flawlessly, but also give information on graphs for separate processing. I have several years experience with academic text processing (including presentations) working with an Academic Publisher if I could be helpful to anything?