We are delighted to announce the release of
GroupDocs.Parser for Java 18.11. The latest version came up with one new feature and three enhancements. It allows you to get information about the supported extractors for a document. Furthermore, we have improved the text area extraction for the PDF documents. For more details, please have a look at the
release notes of version 18.11.
Features Introduced
Getting Information of Supported Extractors for a Document
This feature helps to get the information about the supported extractors for a document. For example, you can check if you can extract the plain text, formatted text, and metadata from a particular document. Furthermore, you can also check if the document is a container that contains other documents in it. For working example of this feature, please refer to
this documentation article.
Enhancements
IFastTextExtractor Interface
GroupDocs.Parser allows changing the default behavior of text extraction. By default, the text is extracted using the
Standard Extract mode. In
Standard Extract mode, the text is extracted with better quality but it takes more time. This enhancements allows setting the fast text extraction via
IFastTextExtractor interface. The support for
IFastTextExtractor interface is added to the following classes:
- PdfTextExtractor
- CellsTextExtractor
- SlidesTextExtractor
For working example of this feature, please refer to
this documentation article.
IDocumentContentExtractor Interface
This enhancement allows getting the access to
Text Analysis API via
IDocumentContentExtractor interface. The support for
IDocumentContentExtractor interface is added to the following classes:
- PdfTextExtractor
- CellsTextExtractor
- SlidesTextExtractor
- WordsTextExtractor
For working example of this feature, please refer to
this documentation article.
Improved Text Area Extraction for PDF Documents
This enhancement improves the text area extraction for PDF documents. In the latest version, the Y-coordinates of text areas start from the top of the page.
Available Channels and Resources
Here are a few channels and resources for you to download, learn, try and get technical support on GroupDocs.Parser:
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