Determining text in a pdf file

Asked Jun 24 '19 at 13:39

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I am analyzing a PDF document to try to determine a date in it (see image). I have two java methods at my disposal:

 PDDocument doc = PDDocument.load(fil);

opens the PDF file into a PDDocument object., and

 String strip = new PDFTextStripper().getText(doc);

gets all the text from the pdf file into a string. Here is what I am trying to read (June 30, 2019)]

Now here it is as text:

This Agreement, which is effective as of\efip2\                               (the "Effective Date")

So would I be correct in assuming that \efip2\ is an image? There is probably no way to determine a date from that image, right? Or is it not an image but some kind of include? Any idea how to get it?

edited Jun 24 '19 at 18:30

mkl

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If this is an image you actually can analyze it using [OpenCV for Java](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48170714/reading-text-from-image-using-tesseract-and-opencv-java) – Victor Gubin Jun 24 '19 at 13:52
If it is an image, you might be able to use OCR. – jokster Jun 24 '19 at 13:53
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From the screenshot alone it is not clear. Please share the PDF. – mkl Jun 24 '19 at 18:34

Determining text in a pdf file

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