This is an optimized version of Apache PDFBox. It allows to extract the rough structure of a document (pages, blocks of text and paragraphs as well as formatting information) and was made with the intent to optimize text extraction results for scientific papers. The output can easily be transformed to plaintext (toString) or to an XML format (toXML).
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