How to extract text from a PDF? [closed]

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Can anyone recommend a library/API for extracting the text and images from a PDF? We need to be able to get at text that is contained in pre-known regions of the document, so the API will need to give us positional information of each element on the page.

We would like that data to be output in xml or json format. We’re currently looking at PdfTextStream which seems pretty good, but would like to hear other peoples experiences and suggestions.

Are there alternatives (commercial ones or free) for extracting text from a pdf programatically?

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