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    Posted: 25 Mar 22 at 8:45AM
Hi,
  In PDF, some text is hidden and not displayed, but can be obtained by “DAGetTextBlockText". How to distinguish which text is displayed and which is hidden?


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It all depends on how it is hidden. For example you could retrieve the text block bounds and determine if it is outside the Media, Crop or Trim box (depending on the type of PDF), or it might be hidden by setting the text colour to the same as the background colour, or hidden by an overlaid image or shape. Unless you control the PDFs yourself, you might have to test multiple things.
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Hi,

first a CombineContentstream... then a NormalizePage... Then the extraction.
Try the the normal GetPageText with option "csv-extraction" - Then you can see the textboundings/-positions and then you'll know why the extract works or not.

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hello, Ingo

Using the method you mentioned, the text blocks DAGetPageText with option "csv-extraction" are also overlapped in position and have the same text color. There is no information that can distinguish extract works or not
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You should upload the relevant pdf anywhere on a free webhoster-space, Dropbox or anywhere else and post the link here.
Then we can try ourself.
Before you should explain detailed what's the result you need and what's the one you get.
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Hello,
http://124.205.131.133:8084/test2.pdf
test. Pdf  cannot distinguish hidden text. the text blocks DAGetPageText with option "csv-extraction" are also overlapped in position and have the same text color.
When extracting text content (test.png), there is text content in the yellow area, and the Yellow blocks overlap.

test2.pdf can't get text content with DAGetPageText








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Sorry.
Nothing readable for me on the download-site.
Finally ... doing all blind ... i should install a baidu.exe.
Perhaps another one here is able to read it and act in a safe way.
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http://124.205.131.133:8084/test2.pdf
test. Pdf  cannot distinguish hidden text. the text blocks DAGetPageText with option "csv-extraction" are also overlapped in position and have the same text color.
When extracting text content (test.png), there is text content in the yellow area, and the Yellow blocks overlap.

test2.pdf can't get text content with DAGetPageText








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Hi,

my first quick shot shows me all these (for me) standard characters and the chinese characters as well.
Which extract-option are you using?
I think that's the problem.
There are many ... try the options 7 and 8 - result should be better.
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hello,

Because the PDF file is relatively large, use Direct access functionality to read the PDF file content

  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(1,0); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(2,0); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(3,0); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(4,0); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(5,0); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(6,1); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(7,1); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(8,1); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(9,0); 
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(10,0);
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(11,1);
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(12,0);
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(13,1);
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(14,0);
  QukPdf.DASetTextExtractionOptions(15,1);

  qukpdf.DASetTextExtractionArea(cpdfXy.Left,cpdfXy.Top,cpdfXy.Width,cpdfXy.Height);
  Pid:=qukpdf.DAExtractPageTextBlocks(FileHandle,PgRef,4);
  qukPdf.DASetTextExtractionWordGap(0.2);
  Pm:=qukpdf.DAGetTextBlockCount(Pid);
  if Pm>0 then
    Begin
      SetLength(AXFInfoLst(InfS),Pm);
      Qid:=0;
      While Qid<Pm DO
        Begin    
          Inc(Qid);
          AXFInfoLst(InfS)[Qid-1].fnt.fSiz:=Round(qukpdf.DAGetTextBlockFontSize(Pid,Qid));
          AXFInfoLst(InfS)[Qid-1].fnt.fNam:=qukpdf.DAGetTextBlockFontName(Pid,Qid);
          AXFInfoLst(InfS)[Qid-1].XYPt.Left:=Round(qukpdf.DAGetTextBlockBound(Pid,Qid,7)/RateW);
          AXFInfoLst(InfS)[Qid-1].XYPt.Top:=Round(qukpdf.DAGetTextBlockBound(Pid,Qid,6)/RateH);
          AXFInfoLst(InfS)[Qid-1].XYPt.Right:=Round(qukpdf.DAGetTextBlockBound(Pid,Qid,5)/RateW);
          AXFInfoLst(InfS)[Qid-1].XYPt.Bottom:=Round(qukpdf.DAGetTextBlockBound(Pid,Qid,2)/RateH);
          AXFInfoLst(InfS)[Qid-1].WStr:=qukPdf.DAGetTextBlockText(Pid,Qid));
        End;
    End;


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The PDF is small.
test1.pdf with 1 page, 722 embedded objects and 1,8 mb
test2.pdf with 1 page, 522 embedded objects and 0,8 mb
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In the test.pdf  in quick PDF library 18, how to make dagettextblocktext not extract the content that is not displayed?

In the test2.pdf in quick PDF library 18, how to make dagettextblocktext extract the display content or dagetpageimagelist extract as an image?
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I doesn't come to an end.
For my opinion test.pdf is okay.
There are different characters... standard and chinese... and extraction works.

test2.pdf has only this extractable content:
fontname;hex-color;font height;row;col;text
"AGXXCW+Arial-BoldMT";231F20;9;-520/769;"6"
"AGXXCW+HYb1gj";231F20;7;-495/766;"《税务研究》"
"BOHDQU+ArialMT";231F20;7;-453/767;"2020"
"AGXXCW+HYb1gj";231F20;7;-437/766;"年第"
"BOHDQU+ArialMT";231F20;7;-423/767;"12"
"AGXXCW+HYb1gj";231F20;7;-415/766;"期 "
The problem can be the negative row-values as well...

Starting both pdf-files with Sumatra, Foxit or Adobe shows me a long index on the left with more than 140 pages.
But the readers offers only 1 single page to read - the index goes into nowhere.

I'll stop here perhaps there's another guy to help. Sorry.
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