Tilman,
Thanks - I missed a subtly in the javadoc (in that it only return 0, 90,180 or
270), thanks for the clarification. Yes, extracting the angle from the
TextMatrix was key.
Thanks for the tip regarding ExtractText.java and rotationMagic - Interesting
treatment of the page.
PDFDev
On Friday, March 20, 2020, 10:06:36 AM GMT, PDF Developer
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hello,
I am experimenting with extracting text from a PDF. Part of the customer
requirements is to extract text in a certain colour. I adapted the
PrintTextColour Sample. Since there is a need to process text that could be at
0..45..90..135.. etc However the TextPosition.getDir() didn't appear to give me
the correct angle sometimes - am I missing something? In the end I calculated
the angle from the TextPosition.getTextMatrix() which is where I understood
getDir() derived the information.
Can someone enlighten me - is this a mistake on my part or a "hiccup" in PDFBox?
PDFDev
