> On 21 Apr 2015, at 13:21, Hesham G. <heshamgne...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Frank ,
>
> Thanks for explaining this.
>
> What I am trying to do is reading sentences from the PDF using TextPosition.
> Your explanation is clear and I can detect the new line using X & Y, but what
> if a sentence is written on 2 lines ? ... Reading the Y-coordinate for the
> second line will result with dealing with it as a new sentence instead of
> considering it a completion for the first line of the sentence.
Could you just take output of PDFToText as a text file and then run it through
an NLP sentence segmenter? Or is there some special case which you're trying to
handle?
> Best regards ,
> Hesham
>
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> 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. <heshamgne...@gmail.com> 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
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