How can I get letter-spacing word-spacing using TextExtractor.

[Zonker Harris]

Hey all,

Working with what I learned from working the the TextExtractorTest program. I am working on a tech demo for my boss. I have figured out how to get almost all the information I need except when I try to
get the letter-spacing and word-spacing, they are not available to the TextExtractor class. If i can get the font, size, weight, serif, why can i not also assess the line and word spacing?

The ruby code

This all works great.
def PrintStyle (style)
puts " style=\"font-family:" + style.GetFontName + "; font-size:" +
style.GetFontSize.to_s + "; sans-serif: " + style.IsSerif.to_s +
"; color:" + style.GetColor.to_s + "\""
But this fails

puts style.GetCharSpacing.to_s

`PrintStyle': undefined method `GetCharSpacing' for #<PDFNetRuby::Style:0x007ff5f1863690> (NoMethodError)

Am I gonna have to abandon TextExtractor and roll out a version using an Element Reader or am I missing something.

Any help would be appreciated.

zonker

[fraga]

I have the same problem! Did you find an alternative?

[Anatoly Kudrevatukh]

Hello,

This information is only accessible through ElementReader interface.

[Support]

I guess you could use the info provided by TextExtractor ( namely glyph and word bounding boxes) to find the info you are looking for.

So,

... compute average char spacing by finding distances between x1...x2 on consecutive Glyph bboxes on the same line

... compute average word spacing by finding distances between x1...x2 on consecutive Word bboxes on the same line

for words:

pdftron::PDF::TextExtractor::Word::GetBBox() or GetQuad()

  https://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/docs/PDFNetC/de/d3a/classpdftron_1_1_p_d_f_1_1_text_extractor_1_1_word.html#a76e7f7a086e3c44d8a261bd77995f9ad

for glyphs

pdftron::PDF::TextExtractor::Word::GetGlyphQuad

 https://www.pdftron.com/pdfnet/docs/PDFNetC/de/d3a/classpdftron_1_1_p_d_f_1_1_text_extractor_1_1_word.html#a8610b0e1e7c1949c336c637d443ebbf0