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SetTextExtractionOptions

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Topic: SetTextExtractionOptions

Posted By: steve
Subject: SetTextExtractionOptions
Date Posted: 15 May 12 at 12:32PM

Hi,

Has anyone managed to use SetTextExtractionOptions?

In my scenario I'm trying to extract text from a PDF which has "small caps" font effect. e.g.
EXTRACT ME
which is being extracted as
E XTRACT M E

By default QuickPdf Library seems to use changes in font style / size as a cue for word boundary detection, a feature I was hoping I could disable by setting:

int setSuccess = _pdfLibrary.SetTextExtractionOptions(1, 1); //(returning 1, so being set)
string pageText = _pdfLibrary.GetPageText(4);

OptionId 1 = Use Font information matching when grouping to separate text blocks
and
1 = Ignore

Any suggestions or help much appreciated!

Steve

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Posted By: steve
Date Posted: 15 Jun 12 at 10:29AM

Support kindly responded with the following. Using (3,1) helped me in the majority of cases:

"I also find that using all three options works pretty well.

SetTextExtractionOptions(1,1);

SetTextExtractionOptions(2,1);

SetTextExtractionOptions(3,1);

You may option 6 might improve the results slightly also.

SetTextExtractionOptions(6,1);