3-Heights® PDF Extract - Parse and extract content, resources and metadata in C#, Java or Batch
3-Heights® PDF Extract is a highly efficient and versatile PDF content and metadata parser and extractor. It constitutes the technical foundation of many solutions: from basic PDF to Text conversion to complex solutions in the area of business intelligence, big data and reporting. It allows a precise and throrough conversion of binary data (PDF) to structured information, e.g. in Unicode, images and metadata. The product provides page-wise extraction via command line or more complex operations using its API, e.g. with C#, Visual Basic, Java or C/C++.
Extract Information from PDF
Extract information such as text, images and metadata from PDF
Easy Integration
Integrate into data analysis, indexing and output management systems
Intuitive Indexing
Extract information to index documents and find them more easily
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PDF Extract - Features
- Extract text:
- Word by word with configurable word boundary detection
- Retrieve text attributes such as position, font and font size
- Automatically apply correct character decoding and produce Unicode output
- Extract raw character codes
- Extract graphics objects (paths):
- As strings that contain PDF graphics operators
- Convert extracted paths to images
- Extract and store images:
- Retrieve image attributes such as compression format, position and transparency masks
- Extract and store transparency masks
- Extract and store alternate images
- Extract PDF document-level information:
- Page count
- PDF version
- Page labels
- Creation and modification date
- Document information such as title, author, subjects, and more
- Outlines (bookmarks) including destinations
- Extract page information:
- Media box, crop box, trim box, bleed box and art box
- Page rotation
- Annotations
- Extract and store embedded font files
- Retrieve detailed font information
- Retrieve optional content group (OCG) information and visibility (layers)
- Retrieve detailed graphic state information for each extracted page content object
- Extract raw PDF objects
- Extract document parts for PDF/X or PDF 2.0
- Retrieve detailed color space information including lookup tables for indexed color spaces
- Extract and store embedded files
- Specify a password to decrypt PDF files
Areas of use - extract information out of your PDF documents
Incoming mail and document processing
Content from PDF files such as forms or scanned incoming invoices, for instance, is extracted and processed for characterization or indexing.
PDF documents are used to store important information relating to products, customer data and corporate knowledge. Meta information such as the document’s creator, date of creation or date of modification are further integral parts of a PDF document. PDF documents are often used as “containers” to enable the transfer of text, images, videos and other data to other processes independently of the platforms in use.
Outgoing mail
PDF documents are restructured in preparation for use by other target groups. The process reads out processing information such as barcodes, address information or page formats that can then be used for controlling printing and packaging lines or sorting processes.
Archiving
Texts or their components are extracted for separate storage in metadata. This allows document indexing to be extended as required.
Other areas of use
- Convert PDF documents into text documents
- Extract information such as addresses, invoice data and report data from documents for process control purposes
- Extract information for document classification and document indexing
- Process data in forms
- Extract images for further processing (scans, photos, etc.)
- Analyze and evaluate the content of PDF documents in mass processing
