El Dilluns, 28 de juliol de 2014, a les 17:20:47, Peter Waller va escriure: > Hi All, > > I've attached a small PDF which has rotated text on it. I generated this > using inkscape. If I reimport the file inkscape recognizes the rotated text > as text. > > Evince can't select the text which is rotated. > > Also, the rotated text doesn't show up in the glib API through > `poppler_page_get_text`, which is what I need for a project where I am > obtaining data from PDFs. > > Is there any chance we could either make rotated text appear in the > `get_text` API or provide an API to obtain such text? > > I'm willing to write patches. Having read through TextOutputDev though I > can't see immediately why rotated text isn't showing up in the output. So > advice is welcome.
pdftotext shows all the text (even if obviously totally wrong) so it must be getting lost in the TextOutputDev -> glib conversion? Cheers, Albert > My strategy once I've figured out why it doesn't show up in `get_text` > would be to add rotation as a property to PopplerTextAttributes, if that is > acceptable. > > Regards, > > - Peter _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler
