Shishir, PDF does not store the word co-ordinates in parts for this string. Primary Diagnosis: elder will be a single entry in the PDF. The information you can get is string length, width, height etc. So if you know the font point size you need to calculate the x-co-ordinate of Diagnosis:. but beware. This is quite tricky when you go for varriable pitch font (Arial, Times new roman etc.)
~Thanks Dexter On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 11:42 AM, Shishir Mane-Patil <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I wish to find accurately the width of a sub-string using the > PDFTextStripper. For e.g. part of the output of PDF Text extraction example > is as follows: > > > > String[75.0,278.8 fs=10.0 xscale=1.0 height=7.0000005 space=5.830001 > width=108.87001]Primary Diagnosis: elder > > > > Here the width calculated for the entire string “Primary Diagnosis: elder” > is 108.87001. I wish to find the starting x-coordinate for just the word > ‘Diagnosis’ and the width of the same word. How can I find the exact > x-coordinate and the width of such substrings. > > > > > > Thanks and Regards, > > Shishir Mane >
