<div dir="ltr">Thanks Suzuki.<div> </div><div>I was looking for something more tried, tested and "stable". </div><div>I'm kind of surprised there's no other way to output char level information.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"> <div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, May 5, 2018 at 9:41 AM, Adam Reichold <<a href="mailto:adam.reichold@t-online.de" target="_blank">adam.reichold@t-online.de</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hello again, so I obviously forgot the attachment... |:-\ Sorry for that. Regards, Adam <div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"> 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: >>> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2018-April/013035.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/poppler/2018-April/013035.html</a> >>> >>> it might be waiting the maintainers review. the discussion and result would be >>> found at here: >>> <a href="https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools/issues/29" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/ropensci/pdftools/issues/29</a> >>> >>> -- >>> >>>> - 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. >>>> >>>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> poppler mailing list >>> <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> >>> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> poppler mailing list >>> <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> >>> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> > > > > _______________________________________________ > poppler mailing list > <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> > <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> > </div></div> _______________________________________________ poppler mailing list <a href="mailto:poppler@lists.freedesktop.org">poppler@lists.freedesktop.org</a> <a href="https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/poppler</a> </blockquote></div> </div>