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PDF to Text Modifier

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Applies to: Lasernet Core 11

All the pages in a PDF document are converted to text format as output with a FormFeed character (HEX 0C) as a splitter character between the pages.

The PDF to Text modifier Setup tab.

The parameters to define the output text settings are:

  • Portrait Columns: (Default=200). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 portrait format) is 200 columns.

  • Portrait Rows: (Default=140). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 portrait format) is 140 rows.

  • Landscape Columns: (Default=300). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 landscape format) is 300 columns.

  • Landscape Rows: (Default=100). Recommended value for PDF documents (in Letter or A4 landscape format) is 100 rows.

  • Options:

    • Remove rotated text: Prevent any characters rotated more than 5% in the PDF input from appearing in the text output.

    • Remove underscores: Prevent underscores (HEX 5F) from appearing in the text output.

    • Remove adjacent periods: Prevent adjacent period (HEX 2E) characters from appearing in text output. It might be expected that a single period character remains after removing adjacent periods in a string.

    • Enable auto alignment: Enable auto-alignment of scanned text. This ensures the best output quality.

    • Extract metadata: Highlight OCR Fields in the Lasernet OCR Editor > Preview window.

      Note

      This feature uses a lot of memory and greatly reduces the processing speed for multi-page documents.

    • Extract form fields: Extract filled form fields (such as text boxes, list boxes, and checkboxes) from the PDF. For backward compatibility, this option is not enabled by default.

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