Get text from pdf including spaces in the PDF document

[benedikt]

Hey,

is it possible to get the formatted text from a PDF? For example a line in the pdf looks like:

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1  Test t3            3,5   14

But the result of "GetPageText" is:

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1 Test t3 3,5 14

I need the space information to split a line into columns.

Thanks a lot!

[Gabriela]

Hello,

Using our latest release the text is extracted "as is", means with all spaces. Please, find an example in our documentation pages here:
https://www.gdpicture.com/guides/gdpicture/web ... eText.html

[benedikt]

As you can read in my post, I'm already using GetPageText with the latest release. But I don't get any spaces larger then one.
So the visual space is not "filled" with spacechars.

[Loïc]

Hello Benedikt,

Your PDF probably doesn't contain spacing characters. Note that it is possible to draw individual text run at any offset in this format.

The OCR technology is a good approach to "recreate" such missing information. You can easily do that using GdPicture by rasterizing the PDF page to a bitmap first, then running OCR using the GdPictureOCR method.

Please let us know if you need a code snippet or further information.

With best regards,

Loïc Carrère