PDFDebugger

[Pietro Paolini <pi...@cognitivecredit.com>]

Hello,

I've started to use the library fairly recently therefore I may have 
missed a few bits in the documentation, sorry if that's the case.

I'd like to know if it is possible to use the PDFDebugger to "jump" to 
the PDF's source when clicking on a relevant portion of the PDF.

For instance when I am looking at a page I'd like to click on a text 
element and jump to the relevant BT..ET or Tj portion.

Is that something that PDFDebugger provide in its current state ?

Thanks,
Pietro.

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Re: PDFDebugger

[Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>]

Hi,

No, although it sounds like an interesting feature. But it would be very 
difficult. A combination of text extraction and remembering content 
stream number and position.

What I do: first I try a direct search (sometimes it works). If not, 
then I remember the position (use the mouse cursor) of what I am 
searching, in the hope that a similar number is in the content stream.

If that doesn't work, then it gets nasty. With WriteDecodedDoc I create 
an uncompressed document. I then delete parts of the content stream and 
display to see whether it appears or not. Of course this is ugly, most 
of the times it works due to repair while parsing.

So this can take a few minutes up to several hours.

Tilman

Am 25.07.2019 um 18:49 schrieb Pietro Paolini:
> Hello,
>
> I've started to use the library fairly recently therefore I may have 
> missed a few bits in the documentation, sorry if that's the case.
>
> I'd like to know if it is possible to use the PDFDebugger to "jump" to 
> the PDF's source when clicking on a relevant portion of the PDF.
>
> For instance when I am looking at a page I'd like to click on a text 
> element and jump to the relevant BT..ET or Tj portion.
>
> Is that something that PDFDebugger provide in its current state ?
>
> Thanks,
> Pietro.
>
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