PDFlib Text Extraction Toolkit (TET) Manual

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
Acrobat provides only garbage when trying to extract the text. The TET Plugin provides
the following functions:
> Copy the text from a PDF document in plain text to the system clipboard or a disk
file. Enhanced clipboard controls facilitate the use of copy/paste.
> Convert a PDF to TETML and place it in the clipboard or a disk file.
> Copy XMP document metadata to the clipboard or a disk file.
> Extract images from the document as TIFF, JPEG, or JPEG 2000 files.
> Find words in the document.
> Detailed configuration settings are available to adjust text and image extraction to
your requirements. Configuration sets can be saved and reloaded.
Advantages over Acrobat’s copy function. The TET Plugin offers several advantages
over Acrobat’s built-in copy facility:
> The output can be customized to match different application requirements.
> TET is able to correctly interpret the text in many cases where Acrobat copies only
garbage to the clipboard.
> Unknown glyphs (for which proper Unicode mapping cannot be established) will be
highlighted in red color, and can be replaced with a user-selected character (e.g. question
mark).
> TET processes documents much faster than Acrobat.
> Images can be selected interactively for export, or all images on the page or in the
document can be extracted.
> Tiny image fragments are merged to usable images.
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