Can Adobe PDF Extract API preserve footnotes at the bottom of the page and attach them to the content they annotate?
Adobe PDF Extract API preserved the footnotes and their links to the text they annotate. The structured output kept all 13 numbered notes outside the body flow, with their associations retained by number.
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Footnote — out of body flow, associatedPassEvidence
1 Braithe Estuary Order 1974, art. 6(2). The Order is reproduced in full in the appendix to R. Sandiman, The Braithe Estuary: A Documentary History (Vardenne, 1988), 211-24. 2 Minutes of the Harbour Board, 14 May 1973 (Braithe Record Office, BHB/3/17), 4. 3 The point was not argued in Tarbert v Braithe Harbour Board [1981] 2 EstLR 88, where both parties proceeded on the assumption that art. 6(2) applied. 4 The Board's file on the 2011 consents (Braithe Record Office, BHB/11/4) contains three letters returned undelivered and a note of a telephone call to a solicitor in Winnipeg.
Assembled Markdown: article text and numbered footnote blocks
Copied from Output file (Markdown), lines 21–27
Open the Markdown file ↗{ "Bounds": [76.535400390625, 135.44979858398438, 519.3294067382812, 158.38084411621094], "Font": { "alt_family_name": "Times New Roman PSMT", "embedded": true, "encoding": "Custom", "family_name": "Times New Roman PSMT", "font_type": "TrueType", "italic": false, "monospaced": false, "name": "AAAAAA+TimesNewRomanPSMT", "subset": true, "weight": 400 }, "HasClip": false, "Lang": "en", "ObjectID": 69, "Page": 0, "Path": "//Document/Sect[2]/Footnote", "Text": "1 Braithe Estuary Order 1974, art. 6(2). The Order is reproduced in full in the appendix to R. Sandiman, The Braithe Estuary: A Documentary History (Vardenne, 1988), 211-24. ", "TextSize": 8.800003051757812 }
API response: extracted structure and footnote tags
Copied from Output file (JSON), structuredData › elements 11
Open the whole JSON file ↗{ "Bounds": [76.535400390625, 92.50579833984375, 363.9521942138672, 104.70083618164062], "Font": { "alt_family_name": "Times New Roman PSMT", "embedded": true, "encoding": "Custom", "family_name": "Times New Roman PSMT", "font_type": "TrueType", "italic": false, "monospaced": false, "name": "AAAAAA+TimesNewRomanPSMT", "subset": true, "weight": 400 }, "HasClip": false, "Lang": "en", "ObjectID": 89, "Page": 2, "Path": "//Document/Sect[2]/Footnote[9]", "Text": "9 Notably Prosser, 'Consent and its conditions', 7, who calls the deletion 'tidying'. ", "TextSize": 8.800003051757812, "attributes": { "LineHeight": 7.625 } }
Copied from Output file (JSON), structuredData › elements 31
| ✓ | Expected: Footnote text is present, kept out of the body flow, and associated with its reference.Found: All 13 notes appeared after their pages’ body text as standalone numbered paragraphs. Their numbers preserved the association with their references. |
The numbered notes and references met the requirement to keep footnotes separate and associated. Page comparisons show references alongside notes, and the Markdown and API response come from the same conversion.
Page furniture omitted. The output omitted the running heads and page numbers 143–146, but kept the first-page journal citation.
Ninth note marker. The marker for note 9 appeared as a separate token within the sentence, rather than as the spaced superscript used in the source.
Markdown output. Adobe PDF Extract does not emit Markdown directly.
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| Level | Name | Scope |
|---|---|---|
| Benchmark | Converting a complex PDF into clean Markdown with a hosted API → | 12 scenarios · 13 tools |
| Capability | Heading & Section Structure → | |
| Scenario | Footnotes at the bottom of the page → | |
| Tool | Adobe PDF Extract API → |
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