Wolfgang Fahl created PDFBOX-4054:
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Summary: allow to access positions of text extracted by
Key: PDFBOX-4054
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-4054
Project: PDFBox
Issue Type: Improvement
Affects Versions: 1.8.13
Environment: any
Reporter: Wolfgang Fahl
Priority: Critical
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25109969/how-to-extract-a-paragraph-from-a-pdf-file-and-store-its-position/48119163?noredirect=1#comment83218312_48119163
describes a need that pdftotext -bbox-layout fulfills by supplying structural
information
for the text extraction.
There has been no PDFBox answer for a while so I assume such a feature is
missing.
A similar approach would be a useful improvement ot PDFBox and much wanted for
certain applications - e.g. when the position of a text on a page is important
for it's meaning.
The poppler xhtml approach supplies for example:
<flow>
<block xMin="333.000000" yMin="270.150000" xMax="360.004000"
yMax="275.150000">
<line xMin="333.000000" yMin="270.150000" xMax="360.004000"
yMax="275.150000">
<word xMin="333.000000" yMin="270.150000" xMax="342.896500"
yMax="275.150000">Your</word>
<word xMin="347.047500" yMin="270.150000" xMax="360.004000"
yMax="275.150000">Bank</word>
</line>
</block>
</flow>
flow/block/line/word is a hierachy and you get position information for block
and line.
PdfBox could supply similar information via callbacks.
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