We evaluated several toolkits designed for text extraction from PDF documents. In this article, we will share our findings and the rationale behind our final choice of CERMINE – the extraction tool developed by ADA Lab and CeON in ICM UW.
One of the useful concepts that came with modern languages is exception handling. In a nutshell, it is the concept of catching exceptions as they occur, instead of checking the inputs and return values of every function called.
String interning is a compiler optimization that detects that the content of the two string literals are the same, and automatically points them to the same object.