Support for HTML Input in processHeaderDocument

[darkotodoric]

I am currently using "processHeaderDocument" to extract data from PDF documents. I would like to extract the same information directly from HTML.

At the moment, my workaround is to convert HTML to PDF and then process it, which works (sometimes), but the conversion adds a few seconds of delay. Would it be possible to add support for HTML input?

[lfoppiano]

Hi @darkotodoric, we don't have such plan at the moment, because it's a lot of work and is likely not going to be better. In general grobid was not designed for that, because some of the important features are obtained from the pdf layout information. If the html pages are just text the risk is that the extraction is not working as well as the pdf.

[lfoppiano]

I'm closing this, if you have more question feel free to reach out and reopen it or comment here.