What have you got so far? Can you provide sample code to work with? On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 12:02 PM, Hesham G. <[email protected]> wrote:
> Frank , > > I have handled TextPositions using X & Y coordinates as you have suggested > to detect new lines. It works fine, but if a sentence is written on 2 lines > I can't detect it. If you know a trick to detect that it will help a lot. > > Best regards , > Hesham > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Hi Hesham, > > There is no newline character in a PDF. Only printable characters are > saved, each with its X and Y coordinates. > If you sort the TextPositions by Y and X, you can detect 'newlines' by > finding an increase in Y and a decrease in X. However, this isn't > foolproof, since things like subscripts and superscripts are out of order > when sorted by Y. Where there are multiple columns, this won't work. > > Frank > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 7:33 AM, Hesham G. <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello , >> >> When reading PDF text using TextPosition, is there a way to know if the >> current character is a new line character ? >> >> protected void processTextPosition( TextPosition text ) { >> System.out.println( text.getCharacter() ); // Prints space if this is >> a new line character in the PDF file. >> } >> >> >> Best regards , >> Hesham >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
