<div dir="ltr">Hi, I don't think what you want to do is easy nor feasible... Poppler uses an heuristic and when using layout he tries to preserve the physical layout. While poppler does detect columns, I don't think it detects tables (and all the code for that is in the TextOutputDev.cc file). That being said, if i run your file through my pdftotext (0.24.3, dont know if that matters) then I DO get the arrows, so you could use the arrows to postprocess your file and add the lines you want. <div>
<br></div><div>Greetings</div><div><br></div><div>José</div><div> </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 2, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Nishanth Lawrence <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:r.nishanth.cse@gmail.com" target="_blank">r.nishanth.cse@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi , <br></div><div>Sorry my previous mail was not formatted correctly due to tables , so I have given links to google docs .<br>
<br></div>I am using pdftotext version 0.24.2 . Following is my case<br>
<br><a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwj-LRZNYWXvTXVZNHNyQnNNd00/edit?usp=sharing" target="_blank">https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bwj-LRZNYWXvTXVZNHNyQnNNd00/edit?usp=sharing</a><br clear="all"><br>While extracting using the following command line utility<br>
<br>pdftotext table.pdf table.txt -layout -nopgbrk -q<br><br>I am getting the following output <br><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwj-LRZNYWXvSGdwa2FXemtydDQ/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwj-LRZNYWXvSGdwa2FXemtydDQ/edit</a><br>
<br>So what I want is , if there in no bullet in any of the line then there
should be empty line in opposite column , could you please tell me what
to change in the code so that I could get an output similar to this <br><br><a href="https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwj-LRZNYWXvck9jMmQtWFU1VkU/edit" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/file/d/0Bwj-LRZNYWXvck9jMmQtWFU1VkU/edit</a><br>
<br></div><div>Or at least which part of the code has to be modified to achieve the above .<br></div><div><br></div>Thanks in advance <br><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br><br><br>-- <br>With Regards<br>
Nishanth R Lawrence<br>
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