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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by Christopher Begley <ch...@outlook.com> on 2016/10/07 15:35:33 UTC
Dump all objects on page with coordinates (images, text, color boxes,
lines)
Hello All!
New to PDFBox. My task to to basically map ALL elements on a page of a pdf document. This includes text, color boxes, highlights, underlines, lines, curves, images, etc.
Does there exist a way to dump all objects on a page and then retrieve information about each object? (Specifically, coordinates that can then be mapped to page coordinates in another file format).
From my limited perusal of the documentation, I don't see any obvious/intuitive way to do this. Can someone point me the right direction on how to approach this problem?
Thanks in advance,
Re: Dump all objects on page with coordinates (images, text, color
boxes, lines)
Posted by Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>.
Am 07.10.2016 um 17:35 schrieb Christopher Begley:
> Hello All!
>
>
> New to PDFBox. My task to to basically map ALL elements on a page of a pdf document. This includes text, color boxes, highlights, underlines, lines, curves, images, etc.
>
>
> Does there exist a way to dump all objects on a page and then retrieve information about each object? (Specifically, coordinates that can then be mapped to page coordinates in another file format).
>
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> From my limited perusal of the documentation, I don't see any obvious/intuitive way to do this. Can someone point me the right direction on how to approach this problem?
If you want "all", then our tools won't help because they're too narrow.
Download the sources and run PDFDebugger, and trace
PDFGraphicsStreamEngine and its parent class.
Tilman
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Re: Dump all objects on page with coordinates (images, text, color boxes, lines)
Posted by Manuel Aristarán <ma...@jazzido.com>.
> On Oct 7, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Christopher Begley <ch...@outlook.com> wrote:
> […] My task to to basically map ALL elements on a page of a pdf document. This includes text, color boxes, highlights, underlines, lines, curves, images, etc.
>
> Does there exist a way to dump all objects on a page and then retrieve information about each object? (Specifically, coordinates that can then be mapped to page coordinates in another file format).
Start by looking at PDFGraphicsStreamEngine. There are usage examples in the source tree.
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Manuel Aristarán
http://jazzido.com