Thanks Suzuki. I was looking for something more tried, tested and "stable". I'm kind of surprised there's no other way to output char level information.
On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Adam Reichold <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello again, > > so I obviously forgot the attachment... |:-\ Sorry for that. > > Regards, > Adam > > Am 05.05.2018 um 08:16 schrieb Adam Reichold: > > Hello mpsuzuki, > > > > attached is a version of your patch with some inline comments. > > > > Generally speaking, I would say that some well-defined format like JSON > > or YAML would be preferable to the ad-hoc encoding? > > > > Best regards, > > Adam > > > > Am 03.05.2018 um 13:50 schrieb suzuki toshiya: > >> Current poppler-dump (a testing tool of cpp-frontend) has no feature to > >> demonstrate per-character bbox feature. > >> Attached patch adds the option to demonstrate it (I'm not saying "this > is ready > >> to use, please use", I want to understand your request and whether > existing > >> features could cover some part of your requests). > >> > >> The patched poppler-dump can work like this: > >> > >> $ cpp/tests/poppler-dump --show-glyph-list test.pdf > >> Page 1/1: > >> --- > >> [Please] @ ( x=72 y=72.624 w=61.32 h=21.6 ) > >> [0] @ ( x=72 y=72.624 w=13.344 h=21.6 ) > >> [1] @ ( x=85.344 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 ) > >> [2] @ ( x=92.016 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) > >> [3] @ ( x=102.672 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) > >> [4] @ ( x=113.328 y=72.624 w=9.336 h=21.6 ) > >> [5] @ ( x=122.664 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) > >> [wait...] @ ( x=139.32 y=72.624 w=59.328 h=21.6 ) > >> [0] @ ( x=139.32 y=72.624 w=17.328 h=21.6 ) > >> [1] @ ( x=156.648 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 ) > >> [2] @ ( x=167.304 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 ) > >> [3] @ ( x=173.976 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 ) > >> [4] @ ( x=180.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 ) > >> [5] @ ( x=186.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 ) > >> [6] @ ( x=192.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 ) > >> [If] @ ( x=72 y=112.428 w=7.992 h=10.8 ) > >> [0] @ ( x=72 y=112.428 w=3.996 h=10.8 ) > >> [1] @ ( x=75.996 y=112.428 w=3.996 h=10.8 ) > >> [this] @ ( x=82.992 y=112.428 w=17.34 h=10.8 ) > >> [0] @ ( x=82.992 y=112.428 w=3.336 h=10.8 ) > >> [1] @ ( x=86.328 y=112.428 w=6 h=10.8 ) > >> [2] @ ( x=92.328 y=112.428 w=3.336 h=10.8 ) > >> [3] @ ( x=95.664 y=112.428 w=4.668 h=10.8 ) > >> ... > >> > >> Regards, > >> mpsuzuki > >> > >> suzuki toshiya wrote: > >>> Dear obsidian, > >>> > >>> Too many posts about similar issues :-) > >>> I'm not sure whether poppler maintainers are interested in the > enhancement of > >>> pdftotext, > >>> but recently Jeroen and I were working with cpp-frontend to have > similar features. > >>> > >>> in the latest version of poppler, > >>> cpp-frontend has a feature to retrieve the list of words with bounding > box, > >>> and it can retrieve the bounding box for each glyph in the word. > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>> also I proposed a patch to retrieve the font family and point size: > >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2018-April/013035.html > >>> > >>> it might be waiting the maintainers review. the discussion and result > would be > >>> found at here: > >>> https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools/issues/29 > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > >>>> - style, i.e. none, bold, italic > >>> > >>> if the document producer has a bold font and used in the document, > aslike > >>> Helvetica-Bold, > >>> it would be found by the family name. > >>> but if the document producer has no bold font and let the word > processor > >>> software synthesize the embolden fonts, > >>> it would be difficult for the PDF renderer to recognize it as embolden > font, > >>> because the embolding is done by showing same glyph with subtle > shifting. > >>> Simple PDF renderers would be unable to distinguish "normal font but > layered" > >>> and "embolden font". > >>> > >>> Regards, > >>> mpsuzuki > >>> > >>> obsidian . wrote: > >>>> I'm using "pdftotext -bbox file.pdf" to convert a pdf file into html. > >>>> > >>>> Here's a sample line from the output: > >>>> <word xMin="359.852025" yMin="462.548936" xMax="365.689478" > yMax="467.681498">foo</word> > >>>> > >>>> Is there a way to get font information for every word like: > >>>> - font family, e.g. Verdana > >>>> - style, i.e. none, bold, italic > >>>> - size, e.g. font size 9 > >>>> > >>>> I'm using pdftotext version 0.55.0 on Windows. > >>>> > >>>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> poppler mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > >>> > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> poppler mailing list > >>> [email protected] > >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > poppler mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > > > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler > >
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