[Open-Legislation] Request for help - Portuguese legislation

[Nuno Moniz]

Hello everyone.

I'm at the moment developing my master thesis which is focused on Open Data,
more specifically on fetching, parsing and publishing Portuguese
Legislation.
This envolves PDF parsing which i believe many of you have had trouble along
your projects.
I don't know if this is the best way to request help, but if not certainly
someone will warn me.
My problem envolves parsing of double columns PDF's (example
http://dre.pt/pdfgratis/2011/01/00200.pdf)
Has anyone had experience (the long hours of algorithm juggling) with this?
I'm using iText for the PDF parsing.
>From what I can figure, based on some comments from Kevin Day who is the
author of the iText text extraction sub-system it is not a simple task, so I
would ask if anyone has handled this problem, to say something :)

Cheers,
Nuno Moniz.
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