>> I've been looking for ways to extract image and word positions (also >> how words form sentences and paragraphs would be useful) from a PDF. >> I'd like to get maps of words/images to rectangles (position, width, >> height). >> >> Also, it would really be great if I could get the positions and >> hierarchy for every object on a page (sorry about my vague terminology >> when it comes to PDF, I've never worked with it). I tried looking at >> the code but there don't seem to be many comments and I can't find any >> documentation... >> >> Could you please point me in the right direction? > > Poppler::Page::textList seems to be what you want > > http://people.freedesktop.org/~aacid/docs/qt4/classPoppler_1_1Page.html#a75dea3bf58f339f224239b757b4c1bb2 > > Albert
Thanks for the quick reply! Yes, that seems to be exactly what I'm looking for, but there doesn't seem to be a corresponding one for images. Actually, there doesn't seem to be any dedicated image class (well, besides QImage), and I can't seem to figure out how to get images from a Page... I can see that there is support for rendering part of a page to a QImage though. I've managed to find some image generating code looking through the utils/ folder in ImageOutputDev, but that seems to be using XPdf directly and I can't find any documentation for that either. Also, after having cloned the Poppler repo, I'm not sure where to look first. What I gather is that there are multiple backends and frontends for Poppler. Backends like Cairo, Splash and frontends like Qt4, GLib and a vanilla C++ one. Which of these should I use? I'd kind of like minimal dependencies, but I've used Qt4 in the past and liked it. Which of these should I look at first (and actually, how do they all fit together)? Sorry for being really noob-ish, but I just cant find any info :( Thanks! Dan _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
