Re: How to get textboxes from pages from a ps file?

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From: Alex_Cherepanov
Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:03

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durumdara@adobeforums.com wrote:

> I need to get text from ps file.
> Ok, ps2ascii do that, but I need the complete pos/size info with text.
> So I need all textbox informations like this:
> 
> page1
> textbox1{x:100,y:100;w:600;h:27;text:"TextBox1 /xfc /xfa"}
> textbox2{x:100,y:180;w:600;h:27;text:"TextBox2"}
> page2
> textbox1{x:100,y:100;w:600;h:27;text:"TextBox1"}
> textbox2{x:100,y:180;w:600;h:27;text:"TextBox2"}
> ...
> 
> Is anyone knows about a tool or parser that can provide these informations to me?

Convert to uncompressed PDF and parse the content stream.
If you need a single-pass converter, it can be created from the pdfwrite
device, but it is a significant development effort.

Regards,
Alex Cherepanov

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