[poppler] pdftotext font information

Mon May 7 23:25:05 UTC 2018

Thanks Suzuki.

I was looking for something more tried, tested and "stable".
I'm kind of surprised there's no other way to output char level information.

On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Adam Reichold <adam.reichold at t-online.de>
wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> so I obviously forgot the attachment... |:-\ Sorry for that.
>
> Regards,
> Adam
>
> Am 05.05.2018 um 08:16 schrieb Adam Reichold:
> > Hello mpsuzuki,
> >
> > attached is a version of your patch with some inline comments.
> >
> > Generally speaking, I would say that some well-defined format like JSON
> > or YAML would be preferable to the ad-hoc encoding?
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Adam
> >
> > Am 03.05.2018 um 13:50 schrieb suzuki toshiya:
> >> Current poppler-dump (a testing tool of cpp-frontend) has no feature to
> >> demonstrate per-character bbox feature.
> >> Attached patch adds the option to demonstrate it (I'm not saying "this
> is ready
> >> to use, please use", I want to understand your request and whether
> existing
> >> features could cover some part of your requests).
> >>
> >> The patched poppler-dump can work like this:
> >>
> >> $ cpp/tests/poppler-dump --show-glyph-list test.pdf
> >> Page 1/1:
> >> ---
> >> [Please] @ ( x=72 y=72.624 w=61.32 h=21.6 )
> >>         [0] @ ( x=72 y=72.624 w=13.344 h=21.6 )
> >>         [1] @ ( x=85.344 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 )
> >>         [2] @ ( x=92.016 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 )
> >>         [3] @ ( x=102.672 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 )
> >>         [4] @ ( x=113.328 y=72.624 w=9.336 h=21.6 )
> >>         [5] @ ( x=122.664 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 )
> >> [wait...] @ ( x=139.32 y=72.624 w=59.328 h=21.6 )
> >>         [0] @ ( x=139.32 y=72.624 w=17.328 h=21.6 )
> >>         [1] @ ( x=156.648 y=72.624 w=10.656 h=21.6 )
> >>         [2] @ ( x=167.304 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 )
> >>         [3] @ ( x=173.976 y=72.624 w=6.672 h=21.6 )
> >>         [4] @ ( x=180.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 )
> >>         [5] @ ( x=186.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 )
> >>         [6] @ ( x=192.648 y=72.624 w=6 h=21.6 )
> >> [If] @ ( x=72 y=112.428 w=7.992 h=10.8 )
> >>         [0] @ ( x=72 y=112.428 w=3.996 h=10.8 )
> >>         [1] @ ( x=75.996 y=112.428 w=3.996 h=10.8 )
> >> [this] @ ( x=82.992 y=112.428 w=17.34 h=10.8 )
> >>         [0] @ ( x=82.992 y=112.428 w=3.336 h=10.8 )
> >>         [1] @ ( x=86.328 y=112.428 w=6 h=10.8 )
> >>         [2] @ ( x=92.328 y=112.428 w=3.336 h=10.8 )
> >>         [3] @ ( x=95.664 y=112.428 w=4.668 h=10.8 )
> >> ...
> >>
> >> Regards,
> >> mpsuzuki
> >>
> >> suzuki toshiya wrote:
> >>> Dear obsidian,
> >>>
> >>> Too many posts about similar issues :-)
> >>> I'm not sure whether poppler maintainers are interested in the
> enhancement of
> >>> pdftotext,
> >>> but recently Jeroen and I were working with cpp-frontend to have
> similar features.
> >>>
> >>> in the latest version of poppler,
> >>> cpp-frontend has a feature to retrieve the list of words with bounding
> box,
> >>> and it can retrieve the bounding box for each glyph in the word.
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>> also I proposed a patch to retrieve the font family and point size:
> >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2018-April/013035.html
> >>>
> >>> it might be waiting the maintainers review. the discussion and result
> would be
> >>> found at here:
> >>> https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools/issues/29
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>>
> >>>> - style, i.e. none, bold, italic
> >>>
> >>> if the document producer has a bold font and used in the document,
> aslike
> >>> Helvetica-Bold,
> >>> it would be found by the family name.
> >>> but if the document producer has no bold font and let the word
> processor
> >>> software synthesize the embolden fonts,
> >>> it would be difficult for the PDF renderer to recognize it as embolden
> font,
> >>> because the embolding is done by showing same glyph with subtle
> shifting.
> >>> Simple PDF renderers would be unable to distinguish "normal font but
> layered"
> >>> and "embolden font".
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> mpsuzuki
> >>>
> >>> obsidian . wrote:
> >>>> I'm using "pdftotext -bbox file.pdf" to convert a pdf file into html.
> >>>>
> >>>> Here's a sample line from the output:
> >>>>     <word xMin="359.852025" yMin="462.548936" xMax="365.689478"
> yMax="467.681498">foo</word>
> >>>>
> >>>> Is there a way to get font information for every word like:
> >>>> - font family, e.g. Verdana
> >>>> - style, i.e. none, bold, italic
> >>>> - size, e.g. font size 9
> >>>>
> >>>> I'm using pdftotext version 0.55.0 on Windows.
> >>>>
> >>>>
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