Dear Adam, Now I don't have sufficient time to draft something, but
> Generally speaking, I would say that some well-defined format like JSON > or YAML would be preferable to the ad-hoc encoding? I agree. I had no special reason to use ad-hoc format. I prefer JSON if I choose JSON and YAML, but, considering pdftotext has XML output, XML output might be expected too? Regards, mpsuzuki Adam Reichold wrote: > 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
