What are the x and y coordinates of H and W?
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On May 17, 2014 2:42 AM, "DImuthu Upeksha" <dimuthu.upeks...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I was tying to manually feed text position objects to
> processTextPosition method in PDFTextStripper class. I created a sub
> class of PDFTextStripper and override processStream method. In
> processStream method I manually created two text position objects for
> words "W" and "H". At the end I passed them to processTextPosition
>
> processTextPosition(textPosition1);
> processTextPosition(textPosition2);
>
> Then I tested it using
>
> PDFTextStripper ocrStripper = new PDFOCRTextStripper();
> PDDocument document = PDDocument.load("some pdf file");
> String data = ocrStripper.getText(document);
> System.out.println(data);
>
> Output was : H W
>
> Then I changed the sequence of passing TextPosition objects in [1]
>
> processTextPosition(textPosition2);
> processTextPosition(textPosition1);
>
> Output was : WH
>
> ------------------------------
>
> As far as I understood processTextPosition works with the text
> position metadata like x and y co-ordinates of the input text. It
> should not depend on the order of the input sequence. But in case It
> seems like processTextPosition method works according to order of
> input.
> Ex. If I input W first, it prints W first without considering it's
> actual position.
>
> Is this the normal behaviour? Or am I missing something here?
>
> [1] https://gist.github.com/DImuthuUpe/5dcfa9758f017794c649
> --
> Regards
>
> W.Dimuthu Upeksha
> Undergraduate
>
> Department of Computer Science And Engineering
>
> University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
>
