Extract Images and Words with coordinates and sizes from PDF

Question

I\'ve read much about PDF extractions and libraries (as iText) but i just haven\'t found a solution to extract images and text (with coordinates) from a PDF.

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Answer 1

Use XPDF (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)

It can extract all the characters in the PDF with co-ordinates (pdftotext -bbox [sourcefile] [outputfile]) and also all the images and SVGs in the PDF.

It's open source (GPLv2) and supports a lot of additional extraction functionalities as well.