Thanks. To be frank, the images and graphs are the weak spot at the moment. The parsers extract just the text layer and that’s the extent of it, so images are just discarded and you don’t even get told there was one.
Tables are worse than dropped - PDF extraction de-flattens them into a stream of values in reading order, so you just get a torrent of disconnected numbers flitting past which don’t mean a great deal.
I would read figures in the normal way for this type of book and then use the tool for the prose. It’s not really fixable at the format level too, there is no good way of showing a person a graph word by word. I suppose what I really should add is some kind of flag to say there was a figure here instead of just letting the process go ahead and drop everything. Otherwise, you can’t really know that you’re missing things.
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Thanks. To be frank, the images and graphs are the weak spot at the moment. The parsers extract just the text layer and that’s the extent of it, so images are just discarded and you don’t even get told there was one.
Tables are worse than dropped - PDF extraction de-flattens them into a stream of values in reading order, so you just get a torrent of disconnected numbers flitting past which don’t mean a great deal.
I would read figures in the normal way for this type of book and then use the tool for the prose. It’s not really fixable at the format level too, there is no good way of showing a person a graph word by word. I suppose what I really should add is some kind of flag to say there was a figure here instead of just letting the process go ahead and drop everything. Otherwise, you can’t really know that you’re missing things.