PDF Filter
Overview
The PDF Filter is an Okapi component that implements the IFilter interface for PDF files.
Warning: This is a filter does not merge back into PDF format. instead it produces a plain text file output upon merging.
Processing Details
Input Encoding
PDF files are binary files and do not have a specific encoding. Okapi extracts all text from the PDF as a Java string and forces the encoding to be "UTF-16". Any encoding selected in tools like Rainbow will be ignored.
Segmentation
TODO?
Parameters
This filter has no parameters.
Limitations
- This filter merges back in plain text format, not PDF.