Scraping hyperlinks from pdf?
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Description
I may have just missed the docs on this (if so apologies) but is it possible to extract the links when these only appear on hovering over / clicking the text displayed in the pdf? (with the examples I am using, the text of the link is extracted fine but not the href)
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No file, test, or entry point is named in the issue. Start by locating the hyperlink extraction behavior in pdf2json and reviewing how PDF link annotations are represented; done would require a clearly scoped decision about whether and how href values should appear in the JSON output, with tests or documentation to confirm it.
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- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- backend
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100