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title="NEW - pdftotext: Add an option for more detailed bounding box information"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=89941">89941</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>pdftotext: Add an option for more detailed bounding box information
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<th>Product</th>
<td>poppler
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<th>Version</th>
<td>unspecified
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>All
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>utils
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>poppler-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>jechols@uoregon.edu
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<pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=114932" name="attach_114932" title="Adds -bbox-layout command to pdftotext">attachment 114932</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=114932&action=edit" title="Adds -bbox-layout command to pdftotext">[details]</a></span> <a href='page.cgi?id=splinter.html&bug=89941&attachment=114932'>[review]</a>
Adds -bbox-layout command to pdftotext
We're looking to generate ALTO-compatible XML
(<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTO_%28XML%29">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ALTO_%28XML%29</a>) from PDFs, and the current -bbox
flag almost does what we need, but skips over some important data - blocks and
lines.
I have created some code based on 0.22.5 (in order to ensure compatibility on
our CentOS 7 system) which appears to apply cleanly to the current master, and
produces the same output as my 0.22.5 hack as far as I can tell. The change
adds a new flag, -bbox-layout, which is still very generic output, but is
sufficient for us to then transform as needed.</pre>
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