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Andreas Meier commented on PDFBOX-2998:
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The question is, when is a group of textpositions forming a word.
My first thought is the location of the textposition, but it also depends on
the font and the size of the font.
In my opinion we can achieve a lot if we just enhance the current code by
adding some checks for font type and font size.
So one possible enhancement would be, to check that in the sorting algorithm:
{code:title=TextPositionComparator.java|borderStyle=solid}
...
public class TextPositionComparator implements Comparator<TextPosition>
{
@Override
public int compare(TextPosition pos1, TextPosition pos2)
{
// only compare text that is in the same direction
if (pos1.getDir() < pos2.getDir())
{
return -1;
}
else if (pos1.getDir() > pos2.getDir())
{
return 1;
}
// FONT TYPE AND FONT SIZE CHECK START
if (pos1.getFontSize() != pos2.getFontSize() ||
!pos1.getFont().getName().equals(pos2.getFont().getName()))
{
return -1;
}
// FONT TYPE AND FONT SIZE CHECK END
// get the text direction adjusted coordinates
float x1 = pos1.getXDirAdj();
float x2 = pos2.getXDirAdj();
float pos1YBottom = pos1.getYDirAdj();
float pos2YBottom = pos2.getYDirAdj();
...
{code}
Please correct me if I am wrong, this is just a simple minded idea that might
work for some cases, but break others.
> Enhance the text extraction capabilities
> ----------------------------------------
>
> Key: PDFBOX-2998
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2998
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: Text extraction
> Affects Versions: 2.0.0
> Reporter: Andreas Meier
> Attachments: TextBehindText.pdf
>
>
> PDFBox will need some -document layout analysis tools- enhancement to the
> current text extraction to extract text correctly.
> At the Moment the text of a document is extracted using the position of
> single characters.
> This may lead to wrong results, due to the format of the file.
> There are good tools such as https://code.google.com/p/lapdftext which we
> could use to compare our current output.
> Possible enhancements are
> - enhance matching of text to a certain line i.e. don't mix up text from
> different lines
> - better handling of rotated text
> - handling of vertical text
> - ability to get additional text properties such as font, font size ...
> Some of these are already logged as individual tickets
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