[poppler] find all text

[Leonard Rosenthol]

At 06:10 PM 7/21/2006, oh.hello.joe at gmail.com wrote:
>Is there a function to get a rectangle containing all the text on the page?

         There is nothing built into Poppler or the underlying Xpdf - 
but you have all the necessary pieces from which to build it.  I've 
done it using a custom OutputDev.


>This could be useful for a pdf viewer to zoom in enough so that the margins
>are out of view but the text is as large as possible while still 
>being in view.

         Remember you have PDFs that aren't just text - so you need 
to consider ALL VISIBLE content...


Leonard

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