Re: [BangPypers] extracting unicode text from pdfs

2010-05-24 Thread Dhananjay Nene
You may want to try out pdfminer. Its very similar to xpdf in structure and should give you the parsed data into unicode directly. On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 7:13 PM, Eknath Venkataramani wrote: > I have around 45 pdfs to convert into raw text containing text in _HINDI_ . > When I use the xpdf pack

extracting unicode text from pdfs

2010-05-24 Thread Eknath Venkataramani
I have around 45 pdfs to convert into raw text containing text in _HINDI_ . When I use the xpdf package, the generated text is very weird, so I'd like to write a program which would convert the pdf text into Unicode text as it is. The fonts used in the pdfs: name