We have a requirement to extract the content of an uploaded PDF and then show it in a text area with the same formatting. Our application runs on ColdFusion 10.
We used cfpdf however the extracted text is a single paragraph with No formatting.
Is there anyway in ColdFusion to read the PDF as text retaining the source formatting (100% accuracy is not expected) .
Note:
- We tried itext and it works very well however it comes with a licensing cost which I don't want to spend as I'm only going to use this single feature from the bundle that itext is providing.
- Tried PDFbox but the formatting is not retained.