Hello,
I use RadPdfViewer to display a pdf document, i use a PdfViewer.Find() to extract text from document :
Could you please tell me if there's any way to :
- Recognize and Extract tables and their data from document.
- Reading special characters (bullet points, tick boxes, ...)
(I work on wpf project based on the c# language)
Thank you in advance
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Hello Mohamed,
PDF format is optimized for viewing, and not for preserving of the semantics of the content. That said, in the general case there is no information in the content indicating that part of the content is a table. The table is, in most cases, just a bunch of paths (borders) and text fragments (words); or even could be an image.
More sophisticated software, like MS Word for example, have the ability to do an OCR analysis of the PDF content elements, and tries to "detect" that a certain content is a table.
That said, the answer to both of your question is no. You can try to detect semantics yourself using RadPdfProcessing and its document model, but this would be tricky and will most probably work only for certain classes of PDF documents.
Regards,
Boby
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PDF format is optimized for viewing, and not for preserving of the semantics of the content. That said, in the general case there is no information in the content indicating that part of the content is a table. The table is, in most cases, just a bunch of paths (borders) and text fragments (words); or even could be an image.
More sophisticated software, like MS Word for example, have the ability to do an OCR analysis of the PDF content elements, and tries to "detect" that a certain content is a table.
That said, the answer to both of your question is no. You can try to detect semantics yourself using RadPdfProcessing and its document model, but this would be tricky and will most probably work only for certain classes of PDF documents.
Regards,
Boby
Progress Telerik
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answered on 07 Dec 2017, 09:22 AM
Thank you very much