Hi Alin,
You can find my source code from here
https://gist.github.com/DImuthuUpe/5dcfa9758f017794c649
As you can see I set
X-offset : 0 and Y-offset : 0 for "H"
X-offset : 32 and Y-offset : 0 for "W"
in Text Matrices. Is that enough? Is there other way to set X,Y co-ordinates?
On Sat, May 17, 2014 at 12:18 PM, Alin Mazilu <impet...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What are the x and y coordinates of H and W?
>
> Alin Mazilu
> SKE GlobalTech, LLC
> 3250 West Market St. Suite 307D
> Fairlawn, OH 44333
>
> Sent from my Galaxy S3
> 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
>>
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Regards
W.Dimuthu Upeksha
Undergraduate
Department of Computer Science And Engineering
University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka
