Extract Text Coordinates from PDF

[sebc...@gmail.com]

Hi,
I was wondering if anyone could recommend a program which can extract
the starting (top left) coordinates (x,y) of each word in a PDF file
(and the end if possible). Ideally output would be in a format that
could be easily inserted into a database.

[larry...@nospamjbmsystems.com]

Hi,

We did that here for an internal parsing requirement but did not make it a
commercial product. That would take additional funding to bring it up to a
marketable product. For a one time function, it would not be worth the
cost. As an OEM or volume product, of course the picture changes. BTW our
output was designed to take the information and place it on an OctoTools
Template which is somewhat XML like. From there we could output CSV or a
custom output if required. Call me if you are looking for a more commercial
solution.

Larry T. (978) 535-7676 US-Boston, MA

[JB]

pdw.exe, part of PDF Command Line Tools
http://www.pdf-tools.com/asp/products.asp?name=CLE

sample output using the -w option:
231.9 663.0 12.0 50.4 0 Cour: permits
295.7 663.0 12.0 21.6 0 Cour: the
330.6 663.0 12.0 28.8 0 Cour: text
372.8 663.0 12.0 72.0 0 Cour: extraction
458.2 663.0 12.0 28.8 0 Cour: from

[fhtino]

PDFLib TET : http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet/index.html

[Eric]

fhtino wrote:

> PDFLib TET : http://www.pdflib.com/products/tet/index.html

Or write your own PS header library to hook the show command.

Eric

[Ralf Koenig]

pdftohtml has an "-xml" mode, which does stuff like that.

http://pdftohtml.sourceforge.net/

Raflf

[Don Lancaster]

http://www.tinaja.com/glib/extract1.pdf

and similar tools at http://www.tinaja.com/gurgrm01.asp

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