Описание тега pdf-parsing

PDF (Portable Document Format) is a binary format for digital documents. This tag is concerned with parsing these documents, that is to say, extract text, images or other data from them, or convert them to simpler formats (such as plain-text).

Because of the complexity of the PDF format (cf. the specification ISO 32000-1), its parsers are often incomplete (can't extract all information from all documents), and subject to security risks.

For example, pdf-parser is a command-line program that parses and analyses PDF documents. It provides features to extract raw data from PDF documents, like compressed images.