Re: PDF Parsing and Indexing

On Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 07:33:42PM -0400, Doug McNaught wrote:
> "Raymond" <support@bigriverinfotech.com> writes:
> > Has anybody had experience in doing this?

Wonder if Google's solution to this is available.

>   provides for arbitrary placement of each glyph on the page.  So the
>   word "this" might be encoded in the file as something like:
>
> moveto(100, 200)
> draw("t")
> moveto(105, 200)
> draw("h")
> moveto(112, 200)
> draw("i")
> moveto(115, 200)
> draw("s")
>
>   You can see that it would hard to index something like this in any
>   kind of useful way.

PDF's generate from MS utilities (Word I think?) are notoriously bad for
this.  Big surprise.

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