PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

4 TET Connectors
TET connectors provide the necessary glue code for interfacing TET with other software.
TET connectors are based on the TET library or the TET command-line tool.
4.1 Free TET Plugin for Adobe Acrobat
This section discusses the TET Plugin, a freely available packaging of TET which can be
used for testing in Adobe Acrobat and interactive use of TET with any PDF document.
The TET Plugin works with Acrobat 8/9/X/XI Standard, Pro, and Pro Extended (but not
the free Adobe Reader). It can be downloaded for free from the following location:
www.pdflib.com/products/tet-plugin.
What is the TET Plugin? The TET Plugin provides simple interactive access to TET. Although
the TET Plugin runs as an Acrobat plugin, the underlying content extraction features
do not use Acrobat functions, but are completely based on TET. The TET Plugin is
provided as a free tool which demonstrate the power of PDFlib TET. Since TET is more
powerful than Acrobat’s built-in text and image extraction tools and offers a number of
convenient user interface features, it is useful as a replacement for Acrobat’s built-in
copy and find features. PDFlib TET can successfully process many documents for which
Fig. 4.1
Configuration panel for the TET Plugin
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