JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper
Converts a pdf file into a text file while keeping the layout of the original pdf. Useful to extract the content from a table in a pdf file for instance. This is a subclass of PDFTextStripper class (from the Apache PDFBox library). observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3979
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 990
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1608 stars · 213 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
A Java library that converts PDF files to text while preserving the original layout, built as a subclass of Apache PDFBox's PDFTextStripper. It is particularly useful for extracting data from tables and forms embedded in PDF documents.
Use cases
- extract table data from a pdf
- convert pdf to text keeping layout
- parse pdf forms into text
- extract bank statement data from pdf
- parse pdf timetables for an app
- pdf data extraction in java
When to choose
- you need layout-aware text extraction from PDFs on the JVM
- you want to pull tabular or form data out of PDFs programmatically
- you already use Apache PDFBox and need better text positioning
When to avoid
- you need plain text without layout fidelity (PDFBox's default stripper suffices)
- you need OCR for scanned/image-only PDFs
- you work outside the Java/JVM ecosystem
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
pdf parser ocr pdf files jvm cross-platform cli pdfbox layout-preserving-text-extraction table-extraction form-extraction java-library data-engineering
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper · fetched 2026-08-28 · 302c708b3f2e
- homepage: https://jonathanlink.ch/PDFLayoutTextStripper.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · a1b70c9a29cb
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| JonathanLink/PDFLayoutTextStripper | main | 23 |
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