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When dealing with complex layout of PDF documents, there may be incomplete text extraction. Here are three step-by-step solutions:
- Pretreatment conversion program::
- Use Adobe Acrobat or online tools (such as Smallpdf) to convert PDF to .txt format
- Check the integrity of the converted text and make manual corrections if necessary
- Importing processed TXT files directly in Abogen
- Built-in editor program::
- Click on the "Built-in Text Editor" button in the Abogen screen.
- Copy key content from PDF to editor
- Use the editor's format cleanup function (to remove special symbols and garbled codes)
- technical program::
- Installation of pdf2text tools (e.g. pdftotext for Linux)
- Preprocessing via the command line:
pdftotext -layout input.pdf output.txt - increase
-enc UTF-8Parameters to ensure correct coding
Preventive advice: When producing PDF, give priority to the use of editable text (not scanned), to avoid complex columnar layout. After processing it is recommended to check whether the content of the first 1 minute of audio is complete through the preview function.
This answer comes from the articleAbogen: a tool for converting multiple text formats to audiobooksThe































