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New converter for the hOCR format #650

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richardpaulhudson opened this issue Jul 29, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #651
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New converter for the hOCR format #650

richardpaulhudson opened this issue Jul 29, 2021 · 1 comment · Fixed by #651
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component: interpreter Related to PDFInterpreter status: accepted type: new feature

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Where text is being extracted from a variety of types of PDF within a business process, those PDFs where the text is only present in image form will need to be analysed using an OCR tool which will typically output hOCR. It would be good to have a PDFMiner converter that extracts the explicit text information from those PDFs that do have it and uses it to generate a basic hOCR representation that is designed to be used in conjunction with the image of the PDF in the same way as genuine OCR output would be, but without the inevitable OCR errors.

I have already developed a solution and am about to submit a pull request.
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Duplicate of #265

@pietermarsman pietermarsman marked this as a duplicate of #265 Aug 14, 2022
pietermarsman added a commit that referenced this issue Aug 14, 2022
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Add HOCRConverter (fixes #650) (#651)
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* Add HOCRConverter

* Add line to README.md

* Test cicd

* Test cicd 2

* Changes based on review comments

* Remove whitespace changes to CHANGELOG.md

* Remove duplicated html output

* Add link to hocr wiki

* Add tests for extracting hocr and html

Co-authored-by: Pieter Marsman <[email protected]>
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Add HOCRConverter (fixes #650) richardpaulhudson/pdfminer.six
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