What Is the Best Way to Convert a PDF to Nicely Formatted Text?

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What is the best way to convert a PDF to nicely formatted text?

I'm certainly not an expert, but since no one else is answering... I started using PDFBox, a java library for parsing and building PDFs, last week. PDFBox lets you parse the text into html, which will break it into a basic paragraph structure. Or you can be more exact - get the x and y coordinates for all the characters on the page, and write logic to format them based on their location. PDFBox is well documented, there are a lot of online examples, and the project is alive with an active and helpful mailing list. Check it out and see if it works for you.

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