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 >> poppler@lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> poppler mailing list >> poppler@lists.freedesktop.org >> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
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