[poppler] Hi All, I have a question about libpoppler and need your helps, thanks in advance.

Brad Hards bradh at frogmouth.net
Tue Feb 21 01:09:01 PST 2012


On Tuesday 21 February 2012 12:20:36 Zhenbang Xi wrote:
> *I am developing  a program using libpoppler to convert PDF to plain text.*
> *And I want to distinguish the page header and page footer from a page,in
> other words,I want to output them  separately(including the main content).*
> *How can I do this? Is there any structure or class that hold them in
> memory?*
There is no way to identify this reliably - PDF (and hence poppler) doesn't 
have any feature to interpret the intent of certain characters. It might be 
possible to come up with a good heuristic for some documents, based on page 
location.

Brad


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