[poppler] a plan to extend poppler-glib to access the raw text

[mpsuzuki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp]

On Tue, 07 Sep 2010 09:04:13 +0200
carlosgc <carlosgc at gnome.org> wrote:
>Excerpts from mpsuzuki's message of mar sep 07 08:42:31 +0200 2010:
>> It dumps the strings collected by TextSelectionVisitor
>> object. TextSelectionVisitor define 3 methods to eat the text,
>> visitBlock(), visitLine() and visitWord(). But only visitLine()
>> method is implemented. Because "line" is defined by the
>> analysis of the text layout, there is no lines in raw order.
>>
>
>Why not simply use TextOutputDev::getText() like qt4 frontend does?
>TextOutputDev::getSelectionText() is meant for selections, but you
>don't want text in raw order for selections. I would just add a new
>method gchar *poppler_page_get_raw_text (PopplerPage *page);

Oh. If you think it's acceptable design, I will do so.
I want to add new method with argument to specify the
rectangle area where the text is extracted.

Anyway, thank you for enlightening me with quick reply.

Regards,
mpsuzuki