[jira] [Commented] (PDFBOX-1521) Text extraction: Introduce PDFTextstripper.handleLine exposing all text positions to a subclass when a line of text is written

["Dustin Spicuzza (JIRA)" <ji...@apache.org>]

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Dustin Spicuzza commented on PDFBOX-1521:
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This is also a feature that I would like as well. 

The patch is incomplete in version 1.8.1, as it did not replace the second invocation of writeLine() with a call to handleLine()
                
> Text extraction: Introduce PDFTextstripper.handleLine exposing all text positions to a subclass when a line of text is written
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-1521
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1521
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Text extraction
>    Affects Versions: 1.8.0
>            Reporter: znerol
>            Priority: Minor
>         Attachments: pdfbox-handleLine.patch
>
>
> In a subclass of PDFTextStripper I like to record the location and dimension of each extracted line of text. By simply extracting the call to writeLine from writePage into a protected method handleLine (in the spirit of handleLineSeparation) this information gets exposed to subclasses.

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