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Life & fun · February 10, 2017

Pdf to json based on xpdf

using XPDF, pdftojson extracts text from PDF files as JSON, including word bounding boxes. - ldenoue/pdftojson

Pdf to json based on xpdf launched on February 10, 2017 with 30 votes, #734 of 3,156 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 9 years on.

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In plain words

This tool converts PDF files to JSON format using the xpdf library as its foundation. It's designed for developers and data engineers who need to extract and structure PDF content for programmatic processing. The conversion approach leverages xpdf's parsing capabilities to transform document data into JSON, making it easier to integrate PDF information into applications and workflows that work with structured data.

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