Hi Mike, Thanks for the suggestion! I'm interested in checking out your forked code. It seems like a good alternative to what I'm currently using.
Hugh On Wed, Jan 22, 2025, 10:25 PM Mike Schinkel <m...@newclarity.net> wrote: > Hi Hugh, > > I have been planning to do some Go work with PDF files, so your email > triggered me to do some research. > > Not sure it using heussd/pdftotext-go is critical to you, or if you are > just trying to read text in a PDF? I tried to get pdf2text installed but > my dev laptop is still running macOS Monterey and I couldn't get it working > so I looked for other options. > > If you are just interested in reading PDF text and do not have a specific > need to use pdf2text then one those others I looked at might work. I came > across a package originally developed by Russ Cox that was forked by many > others, and to evaluate it I forked one of those and then converted it from > using a reader to returning a slice of strings so I could easily split out > the new lines. (I could probably have make it work with the reader, but I > was just going for quick.) > > If you think it can help your use-case, please check it out (but be aware, > my additions to the forked code are rather hacky): > > https://github.com/mikeschinkel/go-pdf-content-reader > > -Mike > > On Jan 22, 2025, at 11:08 AM, Hugh Myrie <hugh.my...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I want to extract text from a PDF and preserve any table or at least > convert it to a CSV. I am using the PDFtoText package (which uses the > Poppler software). The text is extracted vertically (i.e. one column at a > time) and each text is separated by a space. There is no line break making > it difficult to manipulate. I want to extract the text horizontally to > preserve and possible add line breaks to allow for further manipulation. > > Your help in this matter is appreciated. Suggest alternatives if available. > > Here is the Go code: > > package main > > import ( > "fmt" > "log" > "os" > > pdftotext "github.com/heussd/pdftotext-go" > ) > > func main() { > // Replace "test.pdf" with the path to your PDF file > pdfPath := "test.pdf" > // Open the PDF file > f, err := os.Open(pdfPath) > if err != nil { > log.Fatalf("Failed to open PDF file: %v", err) > } > defer f.Close() > // Read the file content > content, err := os.ReadFile(pdfPath) > if err != nil { > log.Fatalf("Failed to read PDF file: %v", err) > } > // Extract text from the PDF file > text, err := pdftotext.Extract(content) > if err != nil { > log.Fatalf("Failed to extract text from PDF file: %v", err) > } > // Print the extracted text > fmt.Println(text) > } > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "golang-nuts" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/c19e212d-a81f-4525-ae0d-a9abb0b292fbn%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/c19e212d-a81f-4525-ae0d-a9abb0b292fbn%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/golang-nuts/CAN-X3%3DZEUgPfWbCvXzRB%2BuYYq2FqqvL8CD420TixSMLwEv6d3g%40mail.gmail.com.
