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Topic: PDF Multiple Column

Posted By: juanmanuelhl
Subject: PDF Multiple Column
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 5:41PM

Hi,

Please look at pdf: http://www.rocksolidpos.com/rentalcontract.pdf - www.rocksolidpos.com/rentalcontract.pdf

It has 2 columns. when I read using the software, it'll read the first column until the end and start on the second column until the end. On my program I would like to display this in 2 text but when I read the PDF it returns everything in 1 string and I don't know how to determine where the second column start.

Is there a parameter or something I could use to determine where the second column starts?

Thanks,

Juan

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Posted By: Ingo
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 5:50PM

Hi Juan!

If you're doing the textextraction with option 3 (=complete string) or 4 (=each single word) you'll get additional informations about the four points of the rectangle round your word or string. Each line of extraction looks like:
fontname; color; font height; x1; y1; x2; y2; x3; y3; x4; y4;"textstring".
So the string of the second column has for example the same y-values for the rows but other (higher) x-values for the column more on the right... You understand?

Cheers, Ingo

Posted By: juanmanuelhl
Date Posted: 10 Sep 09 at 8:32PM

I think I do, I'll give it a shot. thx.