THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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<properties>
<parsers>
<parser class="org.apache.tika.parser.DefaultParser">
<!-- this is not formally necessary, but prevents loading of unnecessary parser -->
<parser-exclude class="org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser"/>
</parser>
<parser class="org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser">
<params>
<!-- these are the defaults; you only need to specify the ones you want
to modify -->
<!-- if you want to extract content, whether or not the PDF allows extraction
at all, do not set this parameter. If you want to extract content and
the PDF allows for extraction for accessibility, set this to true.
If you do not want to extract content when the PDF does not allow extraction
but does allow extraction for accessibility, set this to false -->
<param name="allowExtractionForAccessibility" type="bool">true</param>
<param name="averageCharTolerance" type="float">0.3</param>
<param name="detectAngles" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="extractAcroFormContent" type="bool">true</param>
<param name="extractActions" type="bool">false</param>
<!-- as of 2.8.0 -->
<param name="extractIncrementalUpdateInfo" type="bool">false</param>
<param <param name="catchIntermediateIOExceptions" type="bool">true</param>
<param name="dropThreshold" type="float">2.5</param>
<param name="enableAutoSpace" type="bool">true</param>
<param name="extractAnnotationText" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="extractBookMarksTextextractBookmarksText" type="bool">true</param>
<param name="extractFontNames" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="extractInlineImages" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="extractMarkedContent" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="extractUniqueInlineImagesOnly" type="bool">true</param>
<param name="ifXFAExtractOnlyXFA" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="maxMainMemoryBytes" type="long">-1</param>
<!-- as of 2.8.0 -->
<param name="maxIncrementalUpdates" type="int">10000</param>
<param name="ocrDPI" type="int">300</param>
<param name="ocrImageFormatName" type="string">png</param>
<param name="ocrImageQuality" type="float">1.0</param>
<param name="ocrRenderingStrategy" type="string">ALL</param>
<param name="ocrStrategy" type="string">auto</param>
<param name="ocrStrategyAuto" type="string">better</param>
<param name="ocrImageType" type="string">gray</param>
<!-- as of 2.8.0 -->
<param name="parseIncrementalUpdates" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="setKCMS" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="sortByPosition" type="bool">false</param>
<param name="spacingTolerance" type="float">0.5</param>
<param name="suppressDuplicateOverlappingText" type="bool">false</param>
<!-- as of versions after 2.8.0 -->
<param name="throwOnEncryptedPayload" type="bool">false</param>
</params>
</parser>
</parsers>
</properties> |
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Tables Aren't Extracted as Tables
Right. In PDF/A UA (accessibilityUniversal Accessibility) tables can be stored with structural markup. As of Tika 1.24, you can set "extractMarkedContent" = "true" via the PDFParserConfig, and Tika will extracted marked content, including tables, if the PDF was generated with marked content.
In many PDFs, tables are often not stored as tables. A human is easily able to see tables, but all that is stored in the PDF is text chunks and coordinates on a page (if there's any text at all). One needs to apply some advanced computation to extract table structure from a PDF. Tika does not currently do this. Please see TabulaPDF as one open source project that extracts tables from PDFs and maintains their structure.
Note that as of 2023, we still see papers at research conferences on extracting structural elements (including tables) from PDFs – THIS IS NOT A SOLVED PROBLEM. And, humorously, this kind of task is sometimes called "PDF remediation".
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