Features

• Extracts text from any PDF document to text or as structured XML.
• Offers different Unicode text encoding (UTF-8 and UTF-16) options.
• Provides positioning, font, and styling information for every Paragraph, Line, Word, or a Glyph on a page.
• Offers options to control the level of detail and the formatting in the output XML.
• Offers advanced options to control ligature expansion, hyphen removal, and to remove duplicate text (e.g. which is sometimes used for drop shadow effects).
• Allows for text extraction from a clip rectangle or to hide text in specific regions on a page.
• Option to remove hidden text or text that is obscured by other page elements (such as images or rectangles).
• Supports all versions of PDF format (PDF 1.0 to ISO32000).
• Supports automation and batch operation.