PS. I'm also happy to hear any ideas on how to achieve it using PDFBox on its own, without tabula...
On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 12:01 PM, Gilad Denneboom <[email protected] > wrote: > There doesn't seem to be one... I guess I can try StackOverflow. > > On Tue, May 23, 2017 at 11:54 AM, Andreas Lehmkühler <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > Gilad Denneboom <[email protected]> hat am 22. Mai 2017 um >> 22:07 geschrieben: >> > >> > >> > Hi all, >> > >> > So I'm trying to identify hair-lines in my PDFs. I came across tabula, >> > which seems to be able to do it, but I can't get it to quite work with >> my >> > files in the way I need it to, so any help is greatly appreciated! >> > >> > Here's what I've been doing so far: I used the Ruling object from >> tabula to >> > extract both the horizontal and vertical rules from a stripped version >> of >> > the PDF page (ie, after removing all the text in it). >> > I'm getting results but now I want to relate them back to the original >> PDF >> > page, and that's proving difficult. If I add a text field using the >> > coordinates of the Ruling objects they are way off then where I would >> > expect them to be. I think it has to do with the DPI setting used to >> > convert the PDF page to an image, which is necessary for the rulings >> > extraction. >> > So my question is: How can I take these Ruling objects and convert them >> > back to the original coordinates of the PDF? >> > I would also like to be able to only identify lines of a certain width >> and >> > height, but if I get the rectangles to work correctly I think I can do >> that >> > in post-processing. >> Sounds like a question for the tabulapdf community ... >> >> Andreas >> > >> > Thanks in advance! >> > Gilad >> > >
