Extracting the text from pdf file

Is it possible to extract the text from pdf file using matlab script?

I need to parse through the pdf and extract the particular text in the pdf.

Is there any way to do it?

Answer 1

[Stephen23]

"Is there any way to do it?"

Of course, in principal any data with a known specification can be parsed by MATLAB.

Is there an easy way of reading a PDF into MATLAB?

Not really, because PDF's are not sequentially organized text, although they might look like that when they are displayed or printed. This is also a topic that has been covered before on this forum, and a simple search will bring up these very informative discussions on the topic:

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/155500-how-to-extract-data-from-pdf-file-in-matlab

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/143574-how-to-convert-pdf-files-to-text-files-to-search-easily-in-matlab

http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/217873-how-can-i-read-an-image-file-that-is-stored-in-pdf-format-much-like-reading-a-jpeg-file-with-i-im